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Bright Hosts in Worlds Above

Author: Palmer Hartsough Appears in 11 hymnals Topics: God Praise and Adoration Used With Tune: ST. EDMUND

[Bright hosts in worlds above]

Appears in 225 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Arthur S. Sullivan Incipit: 11117 25565 53332 Used With Text: Praise Ye the Lord

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Bright Hosts in Worlds Above

Author: Palmer Hartsough Hymnal: Gospel Melodies #178 (1918) Topics: God Praise and Adoration Languages: English Tune Title: ST. EDMUND

Bright Hosts In Worlds Above

Author: Palmer Hartsough Hymnal: Melodies of Zion #211 (1926) Languages: English Tune Title: ST. EDMUND

Praise Ye the Lord

Author: Palmer Hartsough Hymnal: Joy and Praise #19 (1908) First Line: Bright hosts in worlds above Languages: English Tune Title: [Bright hosts in worlds above]

1842 - 1900 Person Name: Arthur S. Sullivan Composer of "ST. EDMUND" in Gospel Melodies Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b Lambeth, London. England. 1842; d. Westminster, London, 1900) was born of an Italian mother and an Irish father who was an army bandmaster and a professor of music. Sullivan entered the Chapel Royal as a chorister in 1854. He was elected as the first Mendelssohn scholar in 1856, when he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also studied at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858-1861) and in 1866 was appointed professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Early in his career Sullivan composed oratorios and music for some Shakespeare plays. However, he is best known for writing the music for lyrics by William S. Gilbert, which produced popular operettas such as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), The Mikado (1884), and Yeomen of the Guard (1888). These operettas satirized the court and everyday life in Victorian times. Although he composed some anthems, in the area of church music Sullivan is best remembered for his hymn tunes, written between 1867 and 1874 and published in The Hymnary (1872) and Church Hymns (1874), both of which he edited. He contributed hymns to A Hymnal Chiefly from The Book of Praise (1867) and to the Presbyterian collection Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867). A complete collection of his hymns and arrangements was published posthumously as Hymn Tunes by Arthur Sullivan (1902). Sullivan steadfastly refused to grant permission to those who wished to make hymn tunes from the popular melodies in his operettas. Bert Polman

Palmer Hartsough

1844 - 1932 Author of "Bright Hosts in Worlds Above" in Gospel Melodies Rv Palmer Hartsough USA 1844-1932. Born in Redford, MI, he attended Kalamazoo College and Michigan State Normal school (later MSU). He became an author, editor, lyricist, and librettist. After working as a traveling singing teacher in MI, IL, IA, OH, KY and TN, he opened a music studio in Rock Island, IL, around 1877, also directing music at a Baptist church there. In 1893, due to his poetic abilities, he moved to Cincinnati, OH, and joined the Fillmore Music Company, providing texts (over 1000) for their music. He also served as music director at the Bethel Mission and the 9th Street Baptist Church. He became a traveling song evangelist in 1903, and was ordained a Baptist minister in 1906, serving in Ontario, Canada, and MI from 1914 to 1927. He then returned to Plymouth, MI, where he lived the rest of his life. He never married, but was close to his two sisters, and wrote them a weekly letter for many years. With Fillmore Company he helped publish 20 songbooks. He died in Plymouth, MI. John Perry