[How sweetly over the mountain of Zion]

[How sweetly over the mountain of Zion]

Composer: W. Howard Doane
Published in 11 hymnals


Printable scores: PDF, MusicXML
Audio files: MIDI

Composer: W. 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: [How sweetly over the mountain of Zion]
Composer: W. Howard Doane
Incipit: 53153 54427 57215
Key: D Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Media

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #1060
  • Four-part harmony, full-score (PDF, NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #3784
Text: The Lion of Judah
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)

Instances

Instances (1 - 2 of 2)
ScoreAudio

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #1060

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #3784

Include 9 pre-1979 instances
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