Tune: NORWICH (Mason)

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 >

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Tune Information

Title:	NORWICH (Mason)
Composer:	Lowell Mason
Meter:	7.7.7.7
Incipit:	12321 71345 43235
Key:	g minor
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

Humble Aspirations

Hark, My Soul! It Is The Lord!

Gently glides the stream of life

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Timeline

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Arrangements

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

Introductions and Alternate Accompaniments for Organ Volume 8: Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Hymns 705 - 754
Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Marissa Bauck
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2008) pp. 735
Introductions and Alternate Accompaniments for Piano Volume 8: Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Hymns 705 - 754
Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Marissa Bauck
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2008) pp. 735
Let It Rip! At the Piano: Congregational Song Accompaniments
Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Eric Vollen
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2000) pp. 136

Organ Solo

For All the Faithful: Six New Organ Settings
Composer/Editor Emily Maxson Porter
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2000) pp. 14
Child of the Light: Preludes on Hymntunes by Women
Composer/Editors Wayne L. Wold; Carolyn Jennings
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (1998) pp. 8
O God Beyond All Praising
Composer/Editor David M. Cherwien
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (1998) pp. 17