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Who Made the Stars?
Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: Who made the stars look out at night Refrain First Line: 'Twas God
Who Made the Stars?
[Who made the stars look out at night?]
Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 32176 56532 17123 Used With Text: Who Made the Stars?
[Who made the stars look out at night?]
[Who made the stars look out at night?]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. R. M. Incipit: 53331 25523 33125 Used With Text: Who Made the Stars?
[Who made the stars look out at night?]
Who Made the Stars?
Author: Anon. Hymnal: Songs of the Sanctuary #337 (1945) First Line: Who made the stars look out at night Lyrics: 1 Who made the stars look out at night?
Who gave the sun his heat and light?
Who framed the moon so clear and bright?
‘Twas God, ‘twas God, our Father.
2 Who gave each little bird a wing,
And taught it how to fly and sing,
And made the woods with music ring?
‘Twas God, ‘twas God, our Father.
3 Who made each pretty blade of grass,
With drops of dew, like pearls of glass,
O’er which my little footsteps pass?
‘Twas God, ‘twas God, our Father.
4 Who shaped my little hands and feet,
And warms me with His life and heat;
And gives me clothes, and food to eat?
‘Twas God, ‘twas God, our Father.
Languages: English Tune Title: [Who made the stars look out at night]
Who Made the Stars?
Who Made the Stars?
Hymnal: Little Sacred Songs #83 (1892) First Line: Who made the stars look out at night? Refrain First Line: 'Twas God! Languages: English Tune Title: [Who made the stars look out at night?]
Who Made the Stars?
Who Made the Stars?
Author: Anon. Hymnal: The Junior Hymnal #96 (1923) First Line: Who made the stars look out at night? Languages: English Tune Title: [Who made the stars look out at night?]
Who Made the Stars?
Anonymous
Person Name: Anon. Author of "Who Made the Stars?" in Songs of the Sanctuary In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
J. H. Fillmore
1849 - 1936 Composer of "[Who made the stars look out at night]" in Songs of the Sanctuary James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer.
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J. H. Fillmore
James R. Murray
1841 - 1905 Person Name: J. R. M. Composer of "[Who made the stars look out at night?]" in Little Sacred Songs L.P.M. (1905, April 12). Obituary. New Church Messenger, p.209.
Murray.--At Cincinnati, March 10, 1905, James Ramsey Murray. Funeral services in the Church of the New Jersualem, March 13th.
James R. Murray was widely known in the musical world as the author of many songs and song books, and in the New Church in Chicago and Cincinnati as an affectionate, intelligent, and loyal New Churchman.
He was born in Andover (Ballard Vale), Mass., March 17, 1841. In early life he developed musical talent, and composed many minor pieces for local and special occasions. Later at North Reading, Mass., he attended Dr. George F. Root's School of Music, and was associated with William Bradbury and Dr. Lowell Mason. He enlisted in the Fourteenth Regiment of infantry, commonly known as the Essex County Regiment, and afterwards was changed to the First Regiment, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, which was engaged in most of the battles fought by the Second Army Corps up to the surrender of General Lee.
"Daisy Deane," the first and most popular of his early song successes, was composed in 1863 in Virginia while in camp, words by his cousin, Thomas F. Winthrop. This song is known all over the world, and the Salvation Army is using an arrangement of it for one of their war cry songs.
In 1868 Mr. Murray married Isabella Maria Taylor of Andover; and they removed to Chicago. Here three children were born to them, two passing early to their heavenly home, the youngest, Winthrop Root Murray, is still living. It was during these first years in Chicago that Mr. and Mrs. Murray became interested in the New Church, while he was engaged with Root and Cady as editor of the Long Visitor, afterwards merged with the Musical Visitor. After the great fire of 1871 Mr. and Mrs. Murray returned East, where he was engaged in teaching in Lawrence and Andover, and as organist at the Old South Church in Andover. In 1881 they removed to Cincinnati and Mr. Murray became the editor of the Musical Viistor [sic] and head of the publication department of the John Church Company. Among the most popular of his books are "Pure Diamonds," "Royal Gems," "The Prize" and "Murray's Sacred Songs." The following titles will recall some of his best loved sacred songs: "At Last," "Calm on the Listening Ear of Night," "I Shall Be Satisfied," "There Shall No Evil Befall Thee," "Thine, O Lord, Is the Greatness," "The Way Was Mine," "How Beautiful Upon the Mountains," "Angels from the Realms of Glory."
His last great labor in the publishing department of the John Church Company was the seeing through the press five volumes of Wagner's music dramas, with full score and original German text, and an English translation. The immense and careful labor involved in the preparation of these volumes, with a really smooth and excellent English translation, had perhaps, as it was done under pressure, something to do with Mr. Murray's breakdown. Although for some reason Mr. Murray's name does not appear on the title page of these volumes, his friends knew of the place the work held in his affections and ambition.
Mr. Murray was a member of the Church Council of the Cincinnati Society for the last four years and took a deep interest in the building of the New Church, and in the inauguration of services, with all the changes looking to the improvement of the musical part of the service. The vested choir, organized by Mr. and Mrs. Lawson, which Mr. Murray as councilman had urged from the beginning, in their entrance to the church each Sunday singing the processional hymn participated in the funeral service, with a congregation of brethren and friends, all moved by deep love and profound respect for the consistent life and faith of a worthy Churchman and beloved friend.
--DNAH Archives
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For a discussion of Murray and the tune MUELLER, see: Stulken, M.K. (1981). Hymnal companion to the Lutheran Book of Worship. Philadelphia : Fortress Press, p.170.
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Also available in the DNAH Archives:
1. An excerpt from Christie, George A. (1927). New Free Church. In Music in Andover. Papers read at "Fagot Party" of the Andover Natural History Society.
2. Unsourced essay about Murray written soon after his death, likely from Andover, Mass., perhaps authored by Charlotte Helen Abbott.
James R. Murray
