[In the harvest field there is work to do]

[In the harvest field there is work to do]

Composer: W. Howard Doane (1870)
Published in 42 hymnals


Printable scores: PDF, MusicXML
Audio files: MIDI

Composer: W. Howard Doane

An industrialist and philanthropist, William H. Doane (b. Preston, CT, 1832; d. South Orange, NJ, 1915), was also a staunch supporter of evangelistic campaigns and a prolific writer of hymn tunes. He was head of a large woodworking machinery plant in Cincinnati and a civic leader in that city. He showed his devotion to the church by supporting the work of the evangelistic team of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey and by endowing Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and Denison University in Granville, Ohio. An amateur composer, Doane wrote over twenty-two hundred hymn and gospel song tunes, and he edited over forty songbooks. Bert Polman… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [In the harvest field there is work to do]
Composer: W. Howard Doane (1870)
Meter: 10.10.10.8 with refrain
Incipit: 12333 21216 16511
Key: A♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #3557
Text: Labor On
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)

Instances

Instances (1 - 2 of 2)

Church Hymnal, Mennonite #525

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #3557

Include 40 pre-1979 instances
Suggestions or corrections? Contact us