GOLDEN SHEAVES (Sullivan)

GOLDEN SHEAVES (Sullivan)

Composer: Arthur Sullivan (1874)
Published in 42 hymnals


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Audio files: MIDI, Recording

Composer: Arthur Sullivan

Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b Lambeth, London. England. 1842; d. Westminster, London, 1900) was born of an Italian mother and an Irish father who was an army band­master and a professor of music. Sullivan entered the Chapel Royal as a chorister in 1854. He was elected as the first Mendelssohn scholar in 1856, when he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also studied at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858-1861) and in 1866 was appointed professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Early in his career Sullivan composed oratorios and music for some Shakespeare plays. However, he is best known for writing the music for lyrics by William S. Gilbert, which produced popular operettas such as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: GOLDEN SHEAVES (Sullivan)
Composer: Arthur Sullivan (1874)
Meter: 8.7.8.7 D
Incipit: 53554 32112 34671
Key: G Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • The Really Big Descant Book - Full Music Edition: 250 Settings to Raise the Roof by the World's Finest Church Music Composers
    Composer/Editor Andrew Wright
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2009) pp. 82
  • Restrained Last Verses: Varied Accompaniments for Popular Hymns
    Composer/Editor Michael Higgins
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2003) pp. 49
  • Last Verse Extravaganza for Organ: 200 Fabulous Arrangements
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2001) pp. 59
  • The Ultimate Finishing Touch: Last-verse Arrangements of Well-loved Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Harrison Oxley
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2000) pp. 58
  • More Hymns for Occasions: One Hundred Special Arrangements
    Composer/Editor Colin Mawby
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1997) pp. 32
  • More Last Verses: Another Two Hundred Varied Hymn Tune Harmonies
    Composer/Editor Noel Rawsthorne
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1996) pp. 75

Organ Solo

  • 150 Hymn Preludes Book 1 Hymn Tune A - K: Short and Playable Pieces in Keys to Match All Popular Hymn Books
    Composer/Editor Betty Roe
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2010) pp. 214
  • 64 Hymn Preludes for Organ
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1998) pp. 34
  • The Organist Volume 95 Number 5 November 1991: A Bi-Monthly Publication for Church Organists
    Composer/Editors James Mansfield; Humphrey Turner
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1991) pp. 54

Instances

Instances (1 - 10 of 10)
Text

Ancient and Modern #289

Anglican Hymns Old and New (Rev. and Enl.) #780

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Common Praise #274

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Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #696

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CPWI Hymnal #723

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Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #291

Audio

Small Church Music #1894

The Liturgy of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives #23

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The New English Hymnal #261

TextAudio

TTT-Himnaro Cigneta #61

Include 32 pre-1979 instances
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