African American Heritage Hymnal #616
Tune Title: CHILDREN First Line: Jesus loves the little children Composer: George F. Root, 1820-1895 Meter: 8 7 77 11 Key: A♭ Major Date: 2001
African American Heritage Hymnal #616

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 >| Title: | CHILDREN (Chorus) |
| Composer: | George F. Root |
| Meter: | 7.7.11.7.7.11 |
| Incipit: | 54351 21171 16554 |
| Key: | A♭ Major/G Major |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
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