Joseph P. Holbrook › Tunes

Short Name: Joseph P. Holbrook
Full Name: Holbrook, Joseph P. (Joseph Perry), 1822-1888
Birth Year: 1822
Death Year: 1888

Joseph P. Holbrook was a tune writer in the parlor music style, and used the popular melodies of Mason and Hastings, Bradbury and Root, Greatorex and Kingsley in his collections. He furnished settings for the choir hymns in Songs for the Sanctuary in his Quartet and chorus Choir (New York, 1871, and sought more recogniation than had been given him in a hymnal of his own, Worship in Song (New York, 1880); a book that found no welcome.

from The English hymn: its development and use in worship
By Louis FitzGerald Benson


Tunes by Joseph P. Holbrook (63)AsInstancesIncipitsort descending
ELLESDIEJoseph P. Holbrook, 1822-1888 (Arranger)911113 22112 22243
WHIPPLE (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)111615 32171 65512
WESTMINSTER (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)412316 44334 32123
[Praise, my soul, the King of heaven] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)112333 45333 34223
[What means this eager anxious throng] (13215)J. P. Holbrook (Arranger)113215 43212 32325
BONAR (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)013354 32344 6543
LONGJoseph P. Holbrook (Composer)313453 46531 3211
PROCTOR (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)317521 34271 2
GREEK HYMNJoseph P. Holbrook, 1822-1888 (Composer)817612 13213 21761
BAYLEYJoseph Perry Holbrook (1822— ) (Arranger)732115 44315 76543
DWIGHT (Bellini)J. P. Holbrook (Arranger)432132 71232 22356
REPOSE (Kücken)J. P. Holbrook (Arranger)1032135 65332 11232
GAYLORDJ. P. Holbrook (Composer)1132156 12123 54321
TRISTEJ. P. Holbrook (Composer)232312 34331 64512
[Art thou weary, art thou languid] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)132434 36533 32217
CLINTON (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)1433215 12334 43523
[Late, late, so late! and dark the night and chill] (Lindsay)Joseph P. Holbrook (Arranger)333231 22321 55451
[I know not, the way is so misty] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)133235 43211 43464
MARTHJoseph P. Holbrook (Composer)133312 31536 43432
REFUGE (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)32533314 33112 34654
WELD (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)033323 64354 51764
DODGEJ. P. Holbrook (Composer)733335 42335 5
[Jesus, I my cross have taken] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)133345 33345 61543
JUBILEE (Mozart)J. P. Holbrook (Arranger)333351 23436 55443
BISHOP (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)2533353 12333 32162
[Jesus, I live to Thee] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)233353 44446 55551
BRANNANJ. P. Holbrook (Composer)033354 43164 1465
FINCHJ. P. Holbrook (Composer)133355 41333 34535
MARIANJ. P. Holbrook (Composer)033431 23543 31654
BLAKE (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)133433 34334 53655
HANDY (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)633451 65335 32323
[Rock of Ages, cleft for me] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)133455 34423 65353
WRIGHT (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)033565 12335 1
EVANSTON (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)234133 46543 66655
LEAVITT (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)334313 32355 43431
STRICKLANDJ. P. Holbrook (Composer)034316 12352 312
STANLEY (Abt)Joseph Perry Holbrook (1822- ) (Arranger)134513 21765 17654
STOUGHTONJ. P. Holbrook (Composer)234565 12343 62345
LYTE (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)6034654 35326 75523
[One there is above all others] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)235137 65335 63432
NELSON (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)335432 12165 13654
[More love to Thee, O Christ] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)135432 14413 35433
VOX JESU (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)135434 32211 23451
CRAWFORD (Haydn)J. P. Holbrook (Arranger)151712 34254 3
JEWETT (Weber)Joseph P. Holbrook (Arranger)6053132 43231 35543
SEGURJoseph P. Holbrook (Composer)6253172 16533 45225
BERNARD (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook, 1822-1888 (Composer)1053216 51123 542
BELMONT (Gardiner)Holbrook (Composer)153217 76155 54332
GERHARDT (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)3153243 21543 523
[Star of peace, to wanderers weary] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)153267 12515 32671
REMSEN (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)2253332 16143 33125
TRUMANJoseph P. Holbrook (Composer)953721 65355 62346
VOX DILECTIJoseph P. Holbrook, 1822-1888 (Composer)155112 33221 1177
MIRIAM (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)9155121 17655 64355
POMEROYJ. P. Holbrook (Composer)055312 35332 123
CHURCH (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)3055312 52321 35342
[He leadeth me! O blessed thought] (55345)J. P. Holbrook (Arranger)155345 13211 75543
[Blest is he who cries to heaven]Jos. P. Holbrook (Composer)555536 55334 56176
[Brighter still and brighter] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)255555 51171 66616
WANDERER (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)055561 11317 65565
ELY (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)155566 51223 333
[Frühling, der die Welt verklärt]J. P. Holbrook (Arranger)156532 17121 17654
[Savior, blessed Savior] (56556)Jos. P. Holbrook (Arranger)156556 55113 45543

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