Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #457
Tune Title: HAPPY DAY Meter: 8.8.8.8+6.8.8.8.6.8 Incipit: 51235 123 Date: 2007 Source: Wesleyan Sacred Harp, 1854
Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #457
Title: | HAPPY DAY (Rimbault) |
Composer (attributed to): | Edward F. Rimbault (1854) |
Meter: | 8.8.8.8 with refrain |
Incipit: | 51235 12334 32132 |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | William McDonald's Wesleyan Sacred Harp |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
William J. Reynolds, in his Companion to Baptist Hymnal (1976), p. 161, wrote as follows:
Happy Day appeared in William McDonald’s Wesleyan Sacred Harp (Boston, 1854), set to “Jesus, my All, to heaven is gone” with the present refrain, “Happy day, happy day, When Jesus washed my sins away!” Doddridge’s hymn was given as an alternate text. It is quite possible that the tune was known prior to this date and appeared in earlier collections. McCutchan indicates that the hymn tune refrain is from a song by Edward F. Rimbault, entitled “Happy Land.” More than likely the rest of the tune was the work of some anonymous musician or musicians.
Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations
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Organ Solo
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Piano Solo
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Piano and Organ Duet
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Voices: Vocal Quartet
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