HOMELAND (Sullivan)

HOMELAND (Sullivan)

Composer: Arthur Sullivan (1867)
Published in 130 hymnals


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Composer: Arthur Sullivan

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… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: HOMELAND (Sullivan)
Composer: Arthur Sullivan (1867)
Meter: 7.6.7.6 D
Incipit: 13366 55431 17113
Key: E♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Arrangements

Organ Solo

  • A Musical Gift Book 1: Organ Preludes on Fourteen Familiar Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Austin Cole Lovelace
    Published By: Darcey Press (1994) pp. 14

Media

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #711
  • Four-part harmony, full-score (PDF, NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #2539
Text: The Homeland! O the Homeland!
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)

Instances

Instances (1 - 3 of 3)
ScoreAudio

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #711

Audio

Small Church Music #2297

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #2539

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