HULL (51175)

HULL (51175)

Composer: Lowell Mason
Published in 4 hymnals


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: HULL (51175)
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Incipit: 51175 67156 65343
Key: C Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Texts

Not here, as to the prophet's eye

Not here, as to the prophet's eye,
The Lord upon His throne appears;
Nor seraphim responsive cry,
"Holy! thrice holy!" in our ears.

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O come, loud anthems let us sing

The Eternal and the Sovereign God

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Instances

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New Hymn and Tune Book #158b

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New Hymn and Tune Book #159b

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The Sabbath Hymn and Tune Book #31a

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The Sabbath Hymn and Tune Book #70a

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