Tune: PRESSLY

Composer: Chas. H. Gabriel

Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title:	PRESSLY
Composer:	Chas. H. Gabriel
Meter:	8.8.6.8.8.6
Incipit:	13331 65535 42234
Key:	F Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

How Good and Pleasant Is the Sight

The Good Man's Steps Are Led Aright

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PRESSLY is one of the many (now often forgotten) hymn tunes and gospel songs composed by Charles H. Gabriel (PHH 24). With a copyright date of l901, the tune first appeared with this text in the 1912 Psalter.

Sing in harmony as a testimony of our harmonious love! Well-trained choirs should lead the congregation in singing this hymn in two long lines rather than six short phrases.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988

Notes

PRESSLY is one of the many (now often forgotten) hymn tunes and gospel songs composed by Charles H. Gabriel (PHH 24). With a copyright date of l901, the tune first appeared with this text in the 1912 Psalter.

Sing in harmony as a testimony of our harmonious love! Well-trained choirs should lead the congregation in singing this hymn in two long lines rather than six short phrases.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988

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