[There's a city that looks over the valley of death] (Doane)

[There's a city that looks over the valley of death] (Doane)

Composer: William Howard Doane
Published in 18 hymnals


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Composer: William Howard Doane

An industrialist and philanthropist, William H. Doane (b. Preston, CT, 1832; d. South Orange, NJ, 1915), was also a staunch supporter of evangelistic campaigns and a prolific writer of hymn tunes. He was head of a large woodworking machinery plant in Cincinnati and a civic leader in that city. He showed his devotion to the church by supporting the work of the evangelistic team of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey and by endowing Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and Denison University in Granville, Ohio. An amateur composer, Doane wrote over twenty-two hundred hymn and gospel song tunes, and he edited over forty songbooks. Bert Polman… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [There's a city that looks over the valley of death] (Doane)
Composer: William Howard Doane
Incipit: 51332 31211 65545
Key: A♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Cyber Hymnal #876
Text: City of Gold
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The Cyber Hymnal #876

Include 17 pre-1979 instances
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