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BOND (Root)

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: BOND (Root)
Composer: George F. Root
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Incipit: 31655 67122 34256
Key: B♭ Major
Source: Root & Sweetser's Coll.
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

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Book of Worship #464

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Christian Melodies #78

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Christian Melodies #78

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Hymn and Tune Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Round Note Ed.) #536

New Hymn and Tune Book #124a

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New Hymn and Tune Book #125a

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Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs #992

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Songs for the Sanctuary #971

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