SNOWFIELD

SNOWFIELD

Composer: Lowell Mason (1844)
Published in 2 hymnals


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Composer: 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: SNOWFIELD
Composer: Lowell Mason (1844)
Meter: 6.6.8.6
Incipit: 35567 11765 45517
Key: D Major
Source: Carmina Sacra, (Boston, Massachusetts: J. H. Wilkins & R. B. Carter, 1844
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Cyber Hymnal #6930
Text: Thou Shalt, O Lord, Descend
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The Cyber Hymnal #6930

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