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![]() | MENDEBRASArranged: Lowell Mason (1839)Published in 30 hymnals Printable scores: PDF, Noteworthy Composer Audio files: MIDI |
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 >O day of rest and gladness,
O day of joy and light,
O balm of care and sadness,
Most beautiful, most bright;
On thee, the high and lowly,
Through ages join'd in tune,
Sing, Holy, Holy, Holy,
To the great God Triune.
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| Instances (30) | First Line | Text Title | Refrain First Line | Authors | Composers | Meter | Scripture | Tune Title | Tune Key | Incipit | Languages | Publication Date | |||||
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| Baptist Hymnal 1956 #36 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | Christopher Wordsworth, 1807-1885 | Lowell Mason, 1792-1872 | 7.6.7.6 D | MENDEBRAS | E Flat Major | English | 1956 | ||||||||
| Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #849 | Lowell Mason | 7.6.7.6 | MENDEBRAS | 123332121513555 | 2007 | ||||||||||||
| Christian Service Songs #5 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | Christopher Wordsworth | Lowell Mason | [O day of rest and gladness] (Mason) | F Major or modal | English | 1939 | |||||||||
| Church Hymnal, Mennonite: a Collection of Hymns and Sacred Songs ... 1st ed. [with Deutscher Anhang] #177 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | Christopher Wordsworth | Lowell Mason | 7.6.7.6 D | Exodus 31:15 | MENDEBRAS | F Major or modal | English | 1927 | |||||||
| Favorite Hymns of Praise #78 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | Christopher Wordsworth | Lowell Mason | [O day of rest and gladness] | F Major or modal | 1967 | ||||||||||
| Great Revival Hymns No.2 #249 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | Wordsworth | Lowell Mason | [O day of rest and gladness] | 1913 | |||||||||||
| Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church #11 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | Christopher Wordsworth, 1807-1885 | Lowell Mason, 1792-1872 | MENDEBRAS | F Major or modal | English | 1969 | |||||||||
| Hymns for the Family of God #12 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | Christopher Wordworth | Lowell Mason | MENDEBRAS | E Flat Major | 1976 | ||||||||||
| Hymns for the Living Church #549 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | Christopher Wordsworth | Lowell Mason | 7.6.7.6 D | Genesis 1:3; Genesis 2:2-3; Matthew 28:1; Acts 2:1; Acts 20:7; Hebrews 4:9 | MENDEBRAS | E Flat Major | 1974 | ||||||||
| Living Hymns #5 | O day of rest and gladness | [O day of rest and gladness] | 1988 | ||||||||||||||
| Na Himeni Haipule Hawaii #226 | Ka la ho'omaika'i keia | KA LA HOOMAIKA'I KEIA | Christopher Wordsworth, 1807-1885; Charles M. Hyde, 1832-1899 | Lowell Mason, 1792-1872 | MENDEBRAS | F Major or modal | English; Hawaiian | 1972 | |||||||||
| Praise and Worship: hymnal #30 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | C. Wordsworth | Lowell Mason | [O day of rest and gladness] | F Major or modal | English | 1978 | |||||||||
| Praise and Worship (The Nazarene Hymnal) #30 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | C. Wordsworth | Lowell Mason | [O day of rest and gladness] | F Major or modal | English | 1951 | |||||||||
| Praiseworthy for the Church and Sunday School #288 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | Wordsworth | Lowell Mason | [O day of rest and gladness] (Mason) | F Major or modal | English | 1916 | |||||||||
| Praiseworthy for the Church and Sunday School #289 | In heavenly love abiding | In Heavenly Love Abiding | Lowell Mason | [In heavenly love abiding] (Mason) | F Major or modal | English | 1916 | ||||||||||
| Psalter Hymnal (Blue) #114 | Praise waits for Thee in Zion | Praise Waits For Thee In Zion | Lowell Mason | 7.6.7.6 D | Psalm 65 | MENDEBRAS | F Major | English | 1976 | ||||||||
| Psalter Hymnal (Blue) #321 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | Christopher Wordsworth | Lowell Mason | 7.6.7.6 D | Psalm 118:24 | MENDEBRAS | F Major | English | 1976 | |||||||
| Revival Hymns and Choruses #85 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | Christopher Wordsworth, 1807-1885 | Lowell Mason, 1792-1872 | MENDEBRAS | E Flat Major | English | 1982 | |||||||||
| Service Songs for Young People's Societies, Sunday Schools and Church Prayer Meetings #238 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | Christopher Wordsworth | Lowell Mason | [O day of rest and gladness] | F Major or modal | English | 1913 | |||||||||
| Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #383 | O day of rest and gladness, O day of joy and light | MENDEBRAS | 1985 | ||||||||||||||
| The Ark of Praise #107 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | C. Wordsworth | MENDEBRAS | 1882 | ||||||||||||
| The Church Hymnal ... Seventh-Day Adventist Church #463 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | Christopher Wordsworth | Lowell Mason | 7.6.7.6 D | MENDEBRAS | F Major or modal | English | 1941 | ||||||||
| The Cokesbury Hymnal #16 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | C. Wordsworth | L. Mason | [O day of rest and gladness] | F Major or modal | 1923 | ||||||||||
| The Hymnal : published in 1895 and revised in 1911 by authority of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America : with the supplement of 1917 #46b | O day of rest and gladness | Christopher Wordsworth | Lowell Mason | 7.6.7.6 D | MENDEBRAS | G Major | English | 1921 | |||||||||
| The Hymnbook #70 | O day of rest [peace] and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | Christopher Wordsworth | Lowell Mason | 7.6.7.6 D | Genesis 1:3 | MENDEBRAS | F Major | 1955 | ||||||||
| The New Christian Hymnal #15 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | C. Wordsworth, 1807-1885 | Lowell Mason | 7.6.7.6 D | MENDEBRAS | F Major or modal | 123332121513555 | 1929 | ||||||||
| The Psalter: with responsive readings #170 | Praise waits for Thee in Zion | A Celebration of Divine Grace | Psalm 65 | MENDEBRAS | F Major or modal | English | 1912 | ||||||||||
| Trinity Hymnal #321 | O day of rest and gladness | Lowell Mason | 7.6.7.6 D | MENDEBRAS | F Major or modal | English | 1961 | ||||||||||
| Trinity Hymnal #392 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | Christopher Wordsworth | Lowell Mason | 7.6.7.6 D | Isaiah 58:13-14 | MENDEBRAS | E Flat Major | English | 1990 | |||||||
| Worship and Service Hymnal: For Church, School, and Home #137 | O day of rest and gladness | O Day of Rest and Gladness | Christopher Wordsworth, 1807-1855 | Lowell Mason, 1792-1872 | MENDEBRAS | F Major | English | 1957 |
