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UPTON (Mason)

UPTON (Mason)

Composer: Lowell Mason
Published in 23 hymnals


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: Lowell Mason

Dr. Lowell Mason (the degree was conferred by the University of New York) is justly called the father of American church music; and by his labors were founded the germinating principles of national musical intelligence and knowledge, which afforded a soil upon which all higher musical culture has been founded. To him we owe some of our best ideas in religious church music, elementary musical education, music in the schools, the popularization of classical chorus singing, and the art of teaching music upon the Inductive or Pestalozzian plan. More than that, we owe him no small share of the respect which the profession of music enjoys at the present time as contrasted with the contempt in which it was held a century or more ago. In fact, the… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: UPTON (Mason)
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Incipit: 13542 17123 21
Key: A Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 23 of 23)
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African Methodist Episcopal hymn and tune book #234

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African Methodist Episcopal hymn and tune book #235

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African Methodist Episcopal hymn and tune book #236

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Bible Songs #94

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New Christian Hymn and Tune Book #8

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New Christian Hymn and Tune Book #8

New Hymn and Tune Book #190a

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New Hymn and Tune Book #191d

Primitive Baptist Hymn and Tune book #344

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Primitive Baptist Hymn and Tune Book #344

Primitive Baptist Hymn and Tune book #345

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Primitive Baptist Hymn and Tune Book #345

Primitive Baptist Hymn and Tune book #346

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Primitive Baptist Hymn and Tune Book #346

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The African Methodist Episcopal Hymn and Tune Book #234

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The African Methodist Episcopal Hymn and Tune Book #235

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The African Methodist Episcopal Hymn and Tune Book #236

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The Baptist Standard Hymnal #543

The New Harp of Columbia, Restored Edition #36b

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The New Harp of Columbia #36b

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The Sacred Harp or Eclectic Harmony #23a

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The Standard Church Hymnal #112

Exclude 22 pre-1979 instances
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