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MIRIAM (Holbrook)

Composer: Joseph P. Holbrook

Joseph P. Holbrook was a tune writer in the parlor music style, and used the popular melodies of Mason and Hastings, Bradbury and Root, Greatorex and Kingsley in his collections. He furnished settings for the choir hymns in Songs for the Sanctuary in his Quartet and chorus Choir (New York, 1871, and sought more recogniation than had been given him in a hymnal of his own, Worship in Song (New York, 1880); a book that found no welcome. from The English hymn: its development and use in worship By Louis FitzGerald Benson Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: MIRIAM (Holbrook)
Composer: Joseph P. Holbrook (1865)
Meter: 7.6.7.6
Incipit: 55121 17655 64355
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Arrangements

Organ Solo

  • The Organ Portfolio Volume 18 Number 2 December 1954: Voluntaries for the Church Organ
    Composer/Editors Ellen Jane Lorenz; Rob Roy Peery
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1954) pp. 31

Media

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #1326
  • Four-part harmony, full-score (PDF, NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #4957
Text: Oh, Fair the Gleams of Glory
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)

Instances

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ScoreAudio

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #1326

Audio

Small Church Music #5893

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #4957

Include 98 pre-1979 instances
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