[With harps and with viols, there stand a great throng]

[With harps and with viols, there stand a great throng]

Composer: P. P. Bliss
Published in 23 hymnals


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Composer: P. P. Bliss

Philip P. Bliss (b. Clearfield County, PA, 1838; d. Ashtabula, OH, 1876) left home as a young boy to make a living by working on farms and in lumber camps, all while trying to continue his schooling. He was converted at a revival meeting at age twelve. Bliss became an itinerant music teacher, making house calls on horseback during the winter, and during the summer attending the Normal Academy of Music in Genesco, New York. His first song was published in 1864, and in 1868 Dwight L. Moody advised him to become a singing evangelist. For the last two years of his life Bliss traveled with Major D. W. Whittle and led the music at revival meetings in the Midwest and Southern United States. Bliss and Ira D. Sankey published a popular series of hym… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [With harps and with viols, there stand a great throng]
Composer: P. P. Bliss
Meter: 6.5.7.5 with refrain
Incipit: 34556 71171 21655
Key: B♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #4532
Text: The New Song (Pierson)
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Instances

Instances (1 - 5 of 5)
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Complete Mission Praise #773

Text

Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs #6

Audio

Small Church Music #493

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #4532

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Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) #547

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