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| Short Name: | Verolga Nix |
| Full Name: | Nix, Verolga |
| Birth Year: | 1933 |
| Death Year: | 2014 |
Verolga Nix (Apr. 6, 1933-Dec. 9, 2014) Born in Cleveland, Verolga moved with her family at an early age to Philadelphia. She studied for two years at New England Conservatory of Music and then earned a music degree from Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1955. She was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Bennett College in 2000. After retiring from twenty years as a full-time music teacher in Philadelphia public schools she served as minister of music at several churches in Philadelphia, trained and conducted many choirs and served as a seminar leader nationwide. She was a member of Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), National Association of Negro Musicians and the Hymn Society in U.S. and Canada. In 1980 the United Methodist Church asked her to co-edit with J. Jefferson Cleveland the supplemental hymnal Songs of Zion. She published nearly 200 original songs an arrangements.
(further details in The Philadelphia Tribune, Dec.19, 2014 obituary).
Mary Louise VanDyke
Tunes by Verolga Nix (51) | As | Instances | Incipit |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Ah tol' Jesus it would be all right] | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger) | 1 | 11345 34354 31231 |
| AMEN (Spiritual) | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer) | 1 | 16513 21354 35432 |
| [Eighfold Amen] (Nix) | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Composer) | 2 | 72172 33273 55227 |
| BLESSED QUIETNESS (Marshall) | Verolga Nix (Arranger) | 7 | 34513 21617 65 |
| [You'll hear the trumpet sound] (Spiritual) | Verolga Nix (Harmonizer (refrain)) | 2 | 33231 15534 22653 |
| ELIZABETH (Thompson) | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger) | 1 | 32143 32151 12235 |
| FIX ME, JESUS | Verolga Nix (b. 1933) (Arranger) | 2 | 13215 16513 21116 |
| GIVE ME JESUS (Spiritual) | Verolga Nix (Harmonizer) | 3 | 65535 61332 1355 |
| [Glory, glory, hallelujah] (Spiritual) | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer) | 1 | 56113 13132 11616 |
| [He made the sun to shine by day] | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger) | 1 | 54531 55125 54531 |
| [I trust in God wherever I may be] | Verolga Nix-Allen, b. 1933 (Arranger) | 6 | 56535 17212 34576 |
| [Hebrew children in de fiery furnace] | Verolga Nix (b. 1933) (Arranger) | 2 | 11111 21321 11133 |
| WHOLE WORLD (Spiritual) | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer) | 1 | 55353 13555 55442 |
| SHINE ON ME | Verolga Nix, b. 1933 (Arranger) | 2 | 33116 51111 11123 |
| [I know my robe's goin' to fit me well] | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger) | 1 | 56565 21211 22355 |
| I SHALL NOT BE MOVED | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger) | 1 | 33434 22222 23221 |
| [I stood on the river of Jordan] | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer) | 2 | 51323 35611 32111 |
| BE READY | Verolga Nix (Arranger) | 2 | 11135 56661 53212 |
| LEAVE IT THERE | Verolga Nix (b. 1933) (Arranger) | 2 | 12333 33212 11611 |
| [I'm so glad that trouble don't last always] | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer) | 1 | 11111 65611 33333 |
| [In the valley] | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer) | 1 | 32331 35355 56661 |
| [It was inch by inch that I sought the Lord] | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer) | 1 | 32332 33233 32122 |
| [I've never been to Heaven, but I've been tol'] | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger) | 1 | 13131 11121 23131 |
| PILOT (Gould) | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger) | 1 | 32172 16543 321 |
| SOMEBODY'S KNOCKIN' | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer) | 1 | 11321 61155 16535 |
| [Life is like a mountain railroad] (Tillman) | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger) | 1 | 33312 32111 12165 |
| LIFT EVERY VOICE | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger) | 1 | 34566 66716 54456 |
| [Lord, I'm bearin' heavy burdens] | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer) | 1 | 57113 31555 57121 |
| MARTYRDOM (Wilson) | Verolga Nix (Arranger) | 4 | 51651 23213 53213 |
| [My Savior spoke these words so sweet] | Verolga Nix (b. 1933) (Harmonizer) | 2 | 31332 31133 21713 |
| NEAR THE CROSS (Doane) | Verolga Nix-Allen, b. 1933 (Harmonizer) | 5 | 34321 66511 33234 |
| HAVE MERCY ON ME | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger) | 1 | 53135 35616 52756 |
| O FREEDOM | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger) | 1 | 56112 13135 61132 |
| OLIVET (Mason) | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger) | 1 | 13554 32244 32326 |
| [Our Father who art in heaven] (West Indian) | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger) | 1 | 17511 17511 11223 |
| OVER MY HEAD | Verolga Nix (Arranger) | 2 | 11131 13322 11112 |
| [Peace, peace be unto you] | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger) | 2 | 56754 56611 77713 |
| [Po' sinner, do you love Jesus?] | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger) | 1 | 66533 33111 66343 |
| SOJOURNER | Verolga Nix, b. 1933 (Arranger) | 10 | 13551 32135 77515 |
| BALM IN GILEAD (Spiritual) | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer) | 1 | 32321 51231 33432 |
| [Sometimes I feel like a moanin' dove] | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger) | 1 | 13131 23216 12121 |
| STAND BY ME (Tindley) | Verolga Nix, b. 1933 (Arranger) | 4 | 12333 21567 11355 |
| [Surely been 'buked and surely been scorned] | Verolga Nix, b. 1933 (Arranger) | 3 | 66161 22161 111 |
| [Thank you, Lord, Thank you, Lord] (Spiritual) | Verolga Nix (Harmonizer) | 4 | 32143 26713 43211 |
| [The foxes, they have holes in the ground] | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger) | 1 | 55333 33333 54444 |
| [The time for praying won't be long] | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger) | 1 | 51321 67121 35353 |
| [This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine] | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Arranger) | 1 | 55553 15555 31111 |
| WERE YOU THERE | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Harmonizer) | 1 | 51333 21321 13555 |
| [When I get up in Heaven] | Verolga Nix, 1933- (Composer) | 1 | 53556 11332 12213 |
| WOKE UP THIS MORNING | Verolga Nix (Arranger) | 3 | 33561 16161 56113 |
| [Yes, Yes] | Verolga Nix (Arranger) | 1 | 55566 66653 23555 |
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