SHAWMUT (Mason)

SHAWMUT (Mason)

Arranger: Lowell Mason
Published in 65 hymnals


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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: SHAWMUT (Mason)
Arranger: Lowell Mason
Meter: 6.6.8.6
Incipit: 33355 36666 56333
Key: D Major
Source: Ancient melody
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #11916
Text: My Former Hopes Are Dead
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  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)

Instances

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The Cyber Hymnal #11916

The Sacred Harp #535

Include 63 pre-1979 instances
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