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[On the threshold lo! there standeth]

[On the threshold lo! there standeth]

Composer: George F. Root (1876)
Published in 2 hymnals


Printable scores: PDF, Noteworthy Composer
Audio files: MIDI

Composer: George F. Root

Root, George F., MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. Nos. 16, 100, 293, and 297. A sympathetic biographical sketch, with portrait, is in The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter, Sep. 1886. He died Aug. 6, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [On the threshold lo! there standeth]
Composer: George F. Root (1876)
Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7
Incipit: 12321 71534 54321
Key: B♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #14778
Text: "I Stand At The Door"
  • PDF (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #16406
Text: When The Overwhelming Waters
  • PDF (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)

Instances

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TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #14778

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #16406

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