BREMEN (Hastings)

Composer: Thomas Hastings

Hastings, Thomas, MUS. DOC., son of Dr. Seth Hastings, was born at Washington, Lichfield County, Connecticut, October 15, 1784. In 1786, his father moved to Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y. There, amid rough frontier life, his opportunities for education were small; but at an early age he developed a taste for music, and began teaching it in 1806. Seeking a wider field, he went, in 1817, to Troy, then to Albany, and in 1823 to Utica, where he conducted a religious journal, in which he advocated his special views on church music. In 1832 he was called to New York to assume the charge of several Church Choirs, and there his last forty years were spent in great and increasing usefulness and repute. He died at New York, May 15, 1872. His aim was the… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: BREMEN (Hastings)
Composer: Thomas Hastings (1836)
Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6
Incipit: 51113 21224 23354
Key: E Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • Free Harmonizations of Hymn Tunes: By Fifty American Composers
    Composer/Editor D. DeWitt Wasson
    Published By: Hinshaw Music, Inc. (1984) pp. 8
  • 55 Hymn Intonations
    Composer/Editor Harald Rohlig
    Published By: Abingdon Press (1962) pp. 46

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #10605
Text: I'll Bless Jehovah's Glorious Name
  • PDF (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)
Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs: a manual of worship for the church of Christ #786
Text: Fear not, little flock

Instances

Instances (1 - 3 of 3)

Church Hymnal, Mennonite #349

Himnos de la Iglesia #74

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The Cyber Hymnal #10605

Include 44 pre-1979 instances
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