[They are gathering, slowly gathering] (Root)

[They are gathering, slowly gathering] (Root)

Composer: George F. Root
Published in 6 hymnals


Printable scores: PDF
Audio files: Recording

Composer: George F. Root

Root, George F., MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. Nos. 16, 100, 293, and 297. A sympathetic biographical sketch, with portrait, is in The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter, Sep. 1886. He died Aug. 6, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [They are gathering, slowly gathering] (Root)
Composer: George F. Root
Incipit: 12332 15565 31321
Key: E♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 2 of 2)

Protestant Madagascar Hymnal, 2001 #790

Audio

Small Church Music #6416

Include 4 pre-1979 instances
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