
 
	
	African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal #176
		Tune Title: ARIEL First Line: O could I speak the matchless worth Composer: Lowell Mason, 1792-1872 Meter: 886.D. Key: D Major Date: 2011 
			
	African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal #176

 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  Austria  1756-1791. Born at Salzburg, Austria, the son of Leopold Mozart, a minor composer and violinist, and youngest of seven children, he showed amazing ability on violin and keyboard from earliest childhood, even starting to compose music at age four when his father would play a piece and Mozart would play it exactly as did his father.  At five, he composed some of his own music, which he played to his father, who wrote it down.  When Mozart was eight, he wrote his first symphony, probably transcribed by his father.  In his early years his father was his only teacher, teaching his children languages and academic subjects, as well as fundamentals of their strict Catholic faith.  Some of his early compositions cam… Go to person page >
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  Austria  1756-1791. Born at Salzburg, Austria, the son of Leopold Mozart, a minor composer and violinist, and youngest of seven children, he showed amazing ability on violin and keyboard from earliest childhood, even starting to compose music at age four when his father would play a piece and Mozart would play it exactly as did his father.  At five, he composed some of his own music, which he played to his father, who wrote it down.  When Mozart was eight, he wrote his first symphony, probably transcribed by his father.  In his early years his father was his only teacher, teaching his children languages and academic subjects, as well as fundamentals of their strict Catholic faith.  Some of his early compositions cam… Go to person page > Dr. Lowell Mason (the degree was conferred by the University of New York) is justly called the father of American church music; and by his labors were founded the germinating principles of national musical intelligence and knowledge, which afforded a soil upon which all higher musical culture has been founded. To him we owe some of our best ideas in religious church music, elementary musical education, music in the schools, the popularization of classical chorus singing, and the art of teaching music upon the Inductive or Pestalozzian plan. More than that, we owe him no small share of the respect which the profession of music enjoys at the present time as contrasted with the contempt in which it was held a century or more ago. In fact, the… Go to person page >
Dr. Lowell Mason (the degree was conferred by the University of New York) is justly called the father of American church music; and by his labors were founded the germinating principles of national musical intelligence and knowledge, which afforded a soil upon which all higher musical culture has been founded. To him we owe some of our best ideas in religious church music, elementary musical education, music in the schools, the popularization of classical chorus singing, and the art of teaching music upon the Inductive or Pestalozzian plan. More than that, we owe him no small share of the respect which the profession of music enjoys at the present time as contrasted with the contempt in which it was held a century or more ago. In fact, the… Go to person page >| Title: | ARIEL | 
| Composer: | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 
| Arranger: | Lowell Mason (1836) | 
| Meter: | 8.8.6 D | 
| Incipit: | 55333 11171 33223 | 
| Notes: | Not to be confused with MOZART (553331172443551). | 
| Key: | D♭ Major | 
| Copyright: | Public Domain | 
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