SOVEREIGNTY (Clarkson)

SOVEREIGNTY (Clarkson)

Composer: E. Margaret Clarkson
Published in 3 hymnals


Composer: E. Margaret Clarkson

Edith Margaret Clarkson was a Canadian hymn writer and author, born June 8, 1915, in Melville, Saskatchewan, and long resident in Toronto. Trained as a teacher, she served for decades in public schools while writing hymns and devotional prose marked by doctrinal clarity and poetic restraint. Early texts include “So Send I You” (1937) and “We Come, O Christ, to Thee” (1946); later she contributed widely sung hymns such as “O Father, You Are Sovereign” and “For Your Gift of God the Spirit,” and published numerous books on the Christian life and suffering. Her work—deeply shaped by Reformed conviction—was commissioned and sung in missionary and ecumenical settings worldwide. Clarkson died in 2008, having been named a Fellow… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: SOVEREIGNTY (Clarkson)
Composer: E. Margaret Clarkson
Incipit: 53351 21775 22234
Key: F Major or modal
Copyright: Copyright, © 1966, by Hope Publishing Co. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved.

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • Hymn Tunes with Varied Harmonies Book 6: For Pianoforte or Organ
    Composer/Editor Joseph E. Newell
    Published By: Edwin Ashdown, Limited (London) (1920) pp. 6

Organ Solo

  • Fanfare and Pageant of Praise: Stirring Arrangements for Organ
    Composer/Editor Don Wyrtzen
    Published By: Word Music Group, LLC (1996) pp. 45
  • The Alice Jordan Collection Volume II: Hymn Tunes for Organ
    Composer/Editor Alice Jordan
    Published By: Belwin Mills Publishing Corporation (1993) pp. 10
  • The Sunday Morning Organist Volume Six: Preludes, Offertories, Postludes for the Morning Worship Service
    Composer/Editor Harold H. DeCou
    Published By: Singspiration Music, Inc. (1976) pp. 58

Piano Solo

  • Medleys of Praise
    Composer/Editor Don Wyrtzen
    Published By: GlorySound (1992) pp. 7
  • Let's Enjoy God Together: And Other Favorite Piano Solos by Tedd Smith
    Composer/Editor Tedd Smith
    Published By: Hope Publishing Company (1982) pp. 22

Instances

Instances (1 - 3 of 3)

Crusader Hymns #241

Himnario Bautista #374

Himnario de Alabanza Evangélica #374

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