MENDEBRAS

Arranger: Lowell Mason

Dr. Lowell Mason (the degree was conferred by the University of New York) is justly called the father of American church music; and by his labors were founded the germinating principles of national musical intelligence and knowledge, which afforded a soil upon which all higher musical culture has been founded. To him we owe some of our best ideas in religious church music, elementary musical education, music in the schools, the popularization of classical chorus singing, and the art of teaching music upon the Inductive or Pestalozzian plan. More than that, we owe him no small share of the respect which the profession of music enjoys at the present time as contrasted with the contempt in which it was held a century or more ago. In fact, the… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: MENDEBRAS
Arranger: Lowell Mason (1839)
Meter: 7.6.7.6 D
Incipit: 12333 21215 13555
Key: E♭ Major
Source: German melody
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • Hymn Tunes in Lower Keyes: The Book to Grab When the Congregation Complains that the Hymns are Too High!
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2011) pp. 65
  • More Last Verses: Another Two Hundred Varied Hymn Tune Harmonies
    Composer/Editor Noel Rawsthorne
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1996) pp. 51
  • Preludes for Fifty-five Well-known Hymn Tunes: Modeled after the Free Organ Accompaniments of T. Tertius Noble
    Composer/Editor Howard D. McKinney
    Published By: J. Fischer & Brothers (1967) pp. 18
  • Free Organ Accompaniments to One Hundred Well-known Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor T. Tertius Noble
    Published By: J. Fischer & Brothers (1946) pp. 98

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations: Trumpet Descant

  • Hymns & Descants for Trumpet
    Composer/Editor William Bay
    Published By: Mel Bay Publications, Inc. (1985) pp. 62

Organ Solo

  • A Musical Gift Book 2: 20 Organ Preludes on Familiar Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Robert J. Powell
    Published By: Darcey Press (1996) pp. 4
  • Flexible Preludes: For Organ
    Composer/Editors Dorothy Wells; Lani Smith
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1988) pp. 7
  • The Organ Portfolio Volume 44 Number 6 August 1981: A Bi-Monthly Anthology for Church Organists
    Composer/Editor Lani Smith
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1981) pp. 35
  • Hymn Favorites for Organ Book Three
    Composer/Editor Ethel Tench Rogers
    Published By: Lillenas Publishing Company (1971) pp. 12
  • Preludes for Fifty-five Well-known Hymn Tunes: Modeled after the Free Organ Accompaniments of T. Tertius Noble
    Composer/Editor Howard D. McKinney
    Published By: J. Fischer & Brothers (1967) pp. 18
  • Preludes on Well-Known Hymn Tunes Volume 4: For Organ with Hammond Registration
    Composer/Editor Samuel W. Shanko
    Published By: Broadman Press (1965) pp. 17
  • The Sunday Morning Organist Volume Three
    Composer/Editor Harold H. DeCou
    Published By: Singspiration Music, Inc. (1965) pp. 5
  • One Hundred and One Hymns for Every Day: Hymns You'll Love to Sing and Play
    Composer/Editor Chester Nordman
    Published By: Hansen Publications, Inc. (1962) pp. 39
  • Ashford's Hymn Voluntaries No. 2: A Collection of Organ Voluntaries Based on Familiar Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Emma Louise Ashford
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1910) pp. 92

Piano Solo

  • The Church Pianist Volume 7 Number 5 May 1991: The Pianist's Companion for the Church Year
    Composer/Editors Hugh S. Livingston, Jr.; Edward Broughton
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1991) pp. 28

Piano and Organ Duet

  • Duets for Organ and Piano Book 2: Hymns and Sacred Songs Registrated for Pipe Organ and Hammond
    Composer/Editor Herman Voss
    Published By: Lillenas Publishing Company (1968) pp. 27

Media

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #849
  • Four-part harmony, full-score (PDF, NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #4493
Text: Now Be the Gospel Banner
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)
The Cyber Hymnal #4770
Text: O Day of Rest and Gladness
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)

Instances

Instances (1 - 20 of 20)
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Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #849

Church Hymnal, Mennonite #177

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Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día #539

Himnos de la Iglesia #357

Hymnal #641

Living Hymns #5

Living Hymns #5

Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) #201

Page Scan

Praise! Our Songs and Hymns #100

TextPage Scan

Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #383

TextPage Scan

The A.M.E. Zion Hymnal #312

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #4493

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #4770

TextPage Scan

Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) #392

TextPage Scan

Trinity Psalter Hymnal #65C

TextPage Scan

Trinity Psalter Hymnal #153

TextPage Scan

Worship and Service Hymnal #137

TextPage Scan

ترانيم الإيمان #204

تسابيح المحبة #338

Include 333 pre-1979 instances
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