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[There's a beautiful home beyond the dark river]

[There's a beautiful home beyond the dark river]

Composer: Austin Taylor (1913)
Published in 16 hymnals


Printable scores: PDF, Noteworthy Composer
Audio files: MIDI

Composer: Austin Taylor

Austin Taylor (October 14, 1881 – January 1, 1973) Austin Taylor was born October 14, 1881 in Morgantown, Kentucky. He served Churches of Christ, one of three branches of the Stone-Campbell Movement for all of his long life as a song writer, song leader, minister, preacher, teacher, and singing school leader. The school he helped to found, the Texas Normal Singing School, still holds its camp every Summer. The Taylors moved to Sherman, TX in 1890. There Austin began his music career as a singing school teacher and song writer. Two of his outstanding teachers were Horatio Richmond Palmer (1834-1907) of New York, who wrote songs such as “Master the Tempest is Raging,” “Angry Words,” and “O Lord, Our Lord,” and Dr. Horace Neel… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [There's a beautiful home beyond the dark river]
Composer: Austin Taylor (1913)
Incipit: 51333 33211 65551
Key: A Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #15426
Text: Home On The Banks Of The River
  • PDF (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)

Instances

Instances (1 - 3 of 3)
Page Scan

Sacred Selections for the Church #373

Sacred Songs of the Church #553

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #15426

Include 13 pre-1979 instances
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