GLASGOW (Root)

GLASGOW (Root)

Composer: George F. Root
Published in 18 hymnals


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: George F. Root

Root, George F., MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. Nos. 16, 100, 293, and 297. A sympathetic biographical sketch, with portrait, is in The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter, Sep. 1886. He died Aug. 6, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: GLASGOW (Root)
Composer: George F. Root
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Incipit: 12321 65355 67123
Source: Root & Sweetser's Coll.
Copyright: Public Domain

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Instances

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A Selection of Spiritual Songs #239

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Book of Worship #553

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Laudes Domini #267

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Laudes Domini #268

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Laudes Domini #601

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Laudes Domini #602

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Laudes Domini #603

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Laudes Domini #604

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Laudes Domini #164

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Laudes Domini #237

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Laudes Domini #576

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Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs #628

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Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs #1281

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Songs for the Sanctuary #456

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Songs for the Sanctuary #1315

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The New Laudes Domini #581

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The New Laudes Domini #1205

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