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PILESGROVE

Composer: Nahum Mitchell

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Tune Information

Title: PILESGROVE
Composer: Nahum Mitchell (1816)
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Incipit: 13553 21713 54321
Key: G Major/G Major or modal
Source: English;Templi carmina. Songs of the temple, or Bridgewater collection of sacred music, fourth edition, by Mitchell, Benjamin Holt, & Bartholomew Brown, 1816; p. 93.
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #7636
Text: While on the Verge of Life I Stand
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Instances

Instances (1 - 3 of 3)

New Harmonia Sacra (Legacy ed.) #8

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The Cyber Hymnal #7636

The Harmonia Sacra #57A

Include 23 pre-1979 instances
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