MANNHEIM (Filitz)

MANNHEIM (Filitz)

Composer: Friedrich Filitz; Harmonizer: Lowell Mason
Published in 61 hymnals


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Composer: Friedrich Filitz

Friedrich Filitz PhD Germany 1804-1876. Born at Arnstadt. Thuringia, he was a German composer and musicologist. He collected church music. He also studied philosophy. In 1833 he worked in Berlin as a music critic and at other employment. He was also a music historian. With Ludwig Erck, he published a collection of 15th & 17th Century chorales in 1845. He moved to Munich and published a chorale book in 1847. His legacy of vauable church music was donated to the Bavarian State Library, where it has made many forgotten works available once again. He died in Bonn, Germany. John Perry Go to person page >

Harmonizer: 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: MANNHEIM (Filitz)
Composer: Friedrich Filitz
Harmonizer: Lowell Mason
Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7
Incipit: 13556 54334 51321
Key: E Major
Source: Vierstimmiges Choralbuch, 1847 (melody)
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • Hymn Tunes in Lower Keyes: The Book to Grab When the Congregation Complains that the Hymns are Too High!
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2011) pp. 159
  • Hymn Tunes in Lower Keys: The Book to Grab When the Congregation Complains that the Hymns are Too High!
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2011) pp. 159
  • 200 Last Verses: Completely Revised to Complement the Keys in Major Hymn Books
    Composer/Editor Noel Rawsthorne
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2009) pp. 93
  • The Really Big Descant Book - Full Music Edition: 250 Settings to Raise the Roof by the World's Finest Church Music Composers
    Composer/Editor Christopher Gower
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2009) pp. 127
  • Restrained Last Verses: Varied Accompaniments for Popular Hymns
    Composer/Editor Richard Lloyd
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2003) pp. 77
  • 100 Alternative Hymn Tune Arrangements
    Composer/Editor Andrew Moore
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2001) pp. 30
  • Last Verse Extravaganza for Organ: 200 Fabulous Arrangements
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2001) pp. 91
  • The Ultimate Finishing Touch: Last-verse Arrangements of Well-loved Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Harrison Oxley
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2000) pp. 82
  • Finishing Touch: One Hundred Last Verse Arrangements of Well-Known Hymn Tunes - New and Enlarged Edition
    Composer/Editor Harrison Oxley
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1996) pp. 30
  • After the Last Verse: 200 Hymn Improvisations
    Composer/Editor Malcolm Archer
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1995) pp. 93
  • The Descant Hymn-Tune Book Book II: A Collection of Well-Known Tunes
    Composer/Editor Geoffrey Shaw
    Published By: Novello and Company Limited (1995) pp. 15
  • Hymns for Occasions: One Hundred Special Arrangements
    Composer/Editor Colin Mawby
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1994) pp. 52
  • Hymn Tunes with Varied Harmonies Book 4: For Pianoforte or Organ
    Composer/Editor Joseph E. Newell
    Published By: Edwin Ashdown, Limited (London) (1920) pp. 6

Organ Solo

  • 150 Hymn Preludes Book 2 Hymn Tune L - W: Short and Playable Pieces in Keys to Match All Popular Hymn Books
    Composer/Editor Andrew Fletcher
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2010) pp. 328
  • Twelve Short & Simple Hymn Preludes: Organ
    Composer/Editor Colin Mawby
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2002) pp. 11
  • Hymn Preludes for the Church Year Book 2: Ordinary Time
    Composer/Editor Andrew Fletcher
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2001) pp. 132
  • Organ Miniatures: 200 Short Improvisations on Familiar Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor June Nixon
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1999) pp. 97
  • 100 Hymn Preludes for Manuals
    Composer/Editor Christopher Tambling
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1996) pp. 94
  • The Cathedral Organist: Hymn Settings By Roy Brunner
    Composer/Editor Roy W. Brunner
    Published By: Lillenas Publishing Company (1992) pp. 25
  • The Parish Organist Part Eleven: Thirty-five Preludes on Familiar Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editors Willem Mudde; Gerhard Schwarz
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1966) pp. 50
  • Twenty Hymn-Tune Preludes (Second Set): For Manuals Only, with Optional Pedal
    Composer/Editor Craig Sellar Lang
    Published By: Oxford University Press (1966) pp. 3

Media

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #1071
  • Four-part harmony, full-score (PDF, NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #3619
Text: Lead Us, Heavenly Father (Edmeston)
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)
The Cyber Hymnal #15049
Text: സ്വർ പിതാവേ നീ നയിക്ക
  • PDF (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)

Instances

Instances (1 - 21 of 21)
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African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal #547

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Ancient and Modern #702

Anglican Hymns Old and New (Rev. and Enl.) #422

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Common Praise (1998) #564

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Common Praise #496

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Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #379a

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Complete Mission Praise #400

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CPWI Hymnal #424

Hymns and Psalms #68a

Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #525

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Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #595

Singing the Faith #238

Audio

Small Church Music #616

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The Book of Praise #647

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #15049

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The Hymnal 1982 #595

The Irish Presbyterian Hymbook #107

Text

The New English Hymnal #393

Text

Together in Song #580

ScoreAudio

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #1071

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #3619

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