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Short Name: Joseph P. Holbrook
Full Name: Holbrook, Joseph P. (Joseph Perry), 1822-1888
Birth Year: 1822
Death Year: 1888

Joseph P. Holbrook was a tune writer in the parlor music style, and used the popular melodies of Mason and Hastings, Bradbury and Root, Greatorex and Kingsley in his collections. He furnished settings for the choir hymns in Songs for the Sanctuary in his Quartet and chorus Choir (New York, 1871, and sought more recogniation than had been given him in a hymnal of his own, Worship in Song (New York, 1880); a book that found no welcome.

from The English hymn: its development and use in worship
By Louis FitzGerald Benson


Tunes by Joseph P. Holbrook (63)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
[Art thou weary, art thou languid] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)232434 36533 32217
BAYLEYJoseph Perry Holbrook (1822— ) (Arranger)732115 44315 76543
BERNARD (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook, 1822-1888 (Composer)1153216 51123 542
BELMONT (Gardiner)Holbrook (Composer)153217 76155 54332
BISHOP (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)2533353 12333 32162
BLAKE (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)233433 34334 53655
BONAR (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)113354 32344 6543
BRANNANJ. P. Holbrook (Composer)133354 43164 1465
CHURCH (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)3155312 52321 35342
CLINTON (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)1533215 12334 43523
VOX JESU (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)235434 32211 23451
CRAWFORD (Haydn)J. P. Holbrook (Arranger)151712 34254 3
ELLESDIEJoseph P. Holbrook, 1822-1888 (Arranger)911113 22112 22243
DODGEJ. P. Holbrook (Composer)833335 42335 5
DWIGHT (Bellini)J. P. Holbrook (Arranger)432132 71232 22356
ELY (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)255566 51223 333
EVANSTON (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)334133 46543 66655
FINCHJ. P. Holbrook (Composer)233355 41333 34535
GAYLORDJ. P. Holbrook (Composer)1232156 12123 54321
GERHARDT (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)3253243 21543 523
GREEK HYMNJoseph P. Holbrook, 1822-1888 (Composer)717612 13213 21761
HANDY (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)733451 65335 32323
[He leadeth me! O blessed thought] (55345)J. P. Holbrook (Arranger)255345 13211 75543
[I know not, the way is so misty] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)233235 43211 43464
[Blest is he who cries to heaven]Jos. P. Holbrook (Composer)655536 55334 56176
[Jesus, I live to Thee] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)333353 44446 55551
[Jesus, I my cross have taken] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)233345 33345 61543
JEWETT (Weber)Joseph P. Holbrook (Arranger)5553132 43231 35543
LEAVITT (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)434313 32355 43431
LONGJoseph P. Holbrook (Composer)413453 46531 3211
LYTE (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)5134654 35326 75523
[Frühling, der die Welt verklärt]J. P. Holbrook (Arranger)156532 17121 17654
MARIANJ. P. Holbrook (Composer)133431 23543 31654
MARTHJoseph P. Holbrook (Composer)233312 31536 43432
MIRIAM (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)8655121 17655 64355
[More love to Thee, O Christ] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)235432 14413 35433
NELSON (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)435432 12165 13654
JUBILEE (Mozart)J. P. Holbrook (Arranger)333351 23436 55443
POMEROYJ. P. Holbrook (Composer)155312 35332 123
[Praise, my soul, the King of heaven] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)212333 45333 34223
PROCTOR (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)417521 34271 2
[Brighter still and brighter] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)355555 51171 66616
REPOSE (Kücken)J. P. Holbrook (Arranger)1032135 65332 11232
REFUGE (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)26133314 33112 34654
REMSEN (Holbrook)Joseph P. Holbrook (Composer)2253332 16143 33125
[Rock of Ages, cleft for me] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)233455 34423 65353
[Savior, blessed Savior] (56556)Jos. P. Holbrook (Arranger)256556 55113 45543
SEGURJoseph P. Holbrook (Composer)6253172 16533 45225
STANLEY (Abt)Joseph Perry Holbrook (1822- ) (Arranger)134513 21765 17654
[Star of peace, to wanderers weary] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)253267 12515 32671
STOUGHTONJ. P. Holbrook (Composer)334565 12343 62345
STRICKLANDJ. P. Holbrook (Composer)134316 12352 312
[Late, late, so late! and dark the night and chill] (Lindsay)Joseph P. Holbrook (Arranger)333231 22321 55451
TRISTEJ. P. Holbrook (Composer)332312 34331 64512
TRUMANJoseph P. Holbrook (Composer)753721 65355 62346
VOX DILECTIJoseph P. Holbrook, 1822-1888 (Composer)155112 33221 1177
WANDERER (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)155561 11317 65565
WELD (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)133323 64354 51764
WESTMINSTER (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)512316 44334 32123
[One there is above all others] (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)335137 65335 63432
[What means this eager anxious throng] (13215)J. P. Holbrook (Arranger)213215 43212 32325
WHIPPLE (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)211615 32171 65512
WRIGHT (Holbrook)J. P. Holbrook (Composer)133565 12335 1

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