PURER IN HEART (Fillmore)

Composer: James H. Fillmore

James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music Hous… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: PURER IN HEART (Fillmore)
Composer: James H. Fillmore (1877)
Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.4.4
Incipit: 34332 11765 22234
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Arrangements

Organ Solo

  • My Jesus, I Love Thee: Hymns of Introspection for Organ
    Composer/Editors James Southbridge; Franklin Ritter
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2010) pp. 42
  • Just As I Am and Other Lenten Hymns for Organ
    Composer/Editors Eugene McCluskey; David Paxton
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1996) pp. 42
  • Blessed Be the Name and Other Favorites for Organ
    Composer/Editors Eugene McCluskey; Franklin Ritter
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1993) pp. 52
  • Easy Organ Library Volume 7: A Collection of Organ Voluntaries for Church Use
    Composer/Editor Franklin Ritter
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1989) pp. 70
  • PedalPoint Volume 8 Number 2 January February March 1989: Church Music and Study Helps for Pianists and Organists
    Composer/Editors Sharron Lyon; Dennis R. Johnson
    Published By: The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (1989) pp. 22
  • The Organist Volume 93 Number 3 July 1989: A Bi-Monthly Publication for Church Organists
    Composer/Editors James Mansfield; Franklin Ritter
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1989) pp. 70
  • All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name: Preludes for Organ
    Composer/Editor Sharron Lyon
    Published By: Broadman Press (1976) pp. 32

Piano Solo

  • Overtures of Praise: Piano Solos
    Composer/Editor Joel Raney
    Published By: Hope Publishing Company (2000) pp. 18
  • Gospel Time for Piano Volume 2
    Composer/Editors Hugh S. Livingston, Jr.; Scott D. Oyer
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1997) pp. 19
  • The Church Pianist Volume 10 Number 6 July August 1994: The Pianist's Companion for the Church Year
    Composer/Editors Hugh S. Livingston, Jr.; Scott D. Oyer
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1994) pp. 13
  • Alone with God: Devotional Arrangements for Piano Solo with Hymn Texts, Scriptures, and Prayers
    Composer/Editor Don Phillips
    Published By: Lillenas Publishing Company (1990) pp. 34
  • Offertories for Piano
    Composer/Editors Hugh S. Livingston, Jr.; Lani Smith
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1989) pp. 8
  • The Church Pianist Volume 4 Number 1 September 1987: The Pianist's Companion for the Church Year
    Composer/Editors Hugh S. Livingston, Jr.; Lani Smith
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1987) pp. 15
  • I Love Thee: For Piano
    Composer/Editors Sharron Lyon; Diane D. Nelson
    Published By: Broadman Press (1986) pp. 34

Media

Baptist Hymnal 1991 #492
Text: Purer in Heart, O God
  • Bulletin Score (PDF)
  • Full Score (PDF)
  • Bulletin Score (melody only) (PDF)
Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #323
  • Four-part harmony, full-score (PDF, NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #5705
Text: Purer in Heart, O God
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)

Instances

Instances (1 - 13 of 13)
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Baptist Hymnal 1991 #492

TextPage Scan

Baptist Hymnal 2008 #591

Blessed Refuge #113

TextPage Scan

Chalice Hymnal #573

ScoreAudio

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #323

Church Gospel Songs and Hymns #177

Church Hymnal, Mennonite #464

Great Songs of the Church (Revised) #484

Hinário para o Culto Cristão #371

Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) #542

Page Scan

Sacred Selections for the Church #53

Audio

Small Church Music #6178

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #5705

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