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SEGUR

SEGUR

Composer: Joseph P. Holbrook (1862)
Published in 59 hymnals


Printable scores: PDF, Noteworthy Composer
Audio files: MIDI

Composer: Joseph P. Holbrook

Joseph P. Holbrook was a tune writer in the parlor music style, and used the popular melodies of Mason and Hastings, Bradbury and Root, Greatorex and Kingsley in his collections. He furnished settings for the choir hymns in Songs for the Sanctuary in his Quartet and chorus Choir (New York, 1871, and sought more recogniation than had been given him in a hymnal of his own, Worship in Song (New York, 1880); a book that found no welcome. from The English hymn: its development and use in worship By Louis FitzGerald Benson Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: SEGUR
Composer: Joseph P. Holbrook (1862)
Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7
Incipit: 53172 16533 45225
Copyright: Public Domain

Texts

Guide Me

Guide me, O my great Redeemer,
pilgrim through this barren land;
I am weak, but you are mighty;
hold me with your powerful hand.
Bread of heaven, bread of heaven,
feed me now and evermore,
feed me now and evermore.

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Timeline

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #12041
Text: Yes, My Native Land, I Love Thee
  • PDF (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)

Instances

Instances (1 - 5 of 5)
TextPage Scan

African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal #134

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #1077

Text Info

Church Hymnal, Mennonite #400

Page Scan

Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día #27

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #12041

Include 54 pre-1979 instances
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