Volvéos, volvéos, ¿por que moriréis?

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Volvéos, volvéos, ¿por que moriréis?

Author: John Henry Hopkins
Tune: EXPOSTULATION (Hopkins)
Published in 4 hymnals

Piano/Organ
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Choral
	Awake, Awake, to Love and Work

Instrumental
	An American Sonata for Solo Instrument a…

Author: John Henry Hopkins

John Henry Hopkins, Jr MA USA 1820-1891. Born in Pittsburgh, PA, having 12 siblings, the son of pioneer parents (his father from Dublin, his mother from Hamburg) he became an ecclesiologist. His father had been an ironmaster, school teacher, lawyer, priest and second Episcopal Bishop of Vermont, (becoming presiding bishop in 1865). When his father founded the Vermont Episcopal Institute, he needed an assistant to help run it, so he picked his son to become a tutor and disciplinarian. The younger Hopkins played the flute and bugle in the school orchestra and also taught Sunday school. John Henry reflected the artistic talents of both parents in music, poetry, and art. After graduating from the University of Vermont in 1839, he returned… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Volvéos, volvéos, ¿por que moriréis?
Author:	John Henry Hopkins
Language:	Spanish
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

EXPOSTULATION (Hopkins)

CONSOLATOR (Webbe)

CONSOLATION was originally set for solo voice to "Alma redemptoris mater" by Samuel Webbe, Sr. (PHH 112), in his Collection of Motetts and Antiphons (1792). Thomas Hastings adapted the tune for use with Moore's text in Spiritual Songs for Social Worship (1831). CONSOLATION is also known as ALMA and…

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