Tune: CINCINNATI (Mason)

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CINCINNATI (Mason)

Composer: Lowell Mason
Published in 3 hymnals

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	THE HEAD THAT ONCE WAS CROWNED WITH THOR…

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 >

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Tune Information

Title:	CINCINNATI (Mason)
Composer:	Lowell Mason
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Incipit:	55511 13222 32176
Key:	A♭ Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

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The Head That Once Was Crowned With Thorns

The golden gates are lifted up

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THE HEAD THAT ONCE WAS CROWNED WITH THORNS (Gray Psalter Hymnal 411)

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Organ Solo

The Organ Portfolio Volume 69 Number 1 September October 2005: A Bi-Monthly Anthology for the Church Organist
Composer/Editors Gilbert M. Martin; David Paxton
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2005) pp. 35
The Organist's Library Volume 40
Composer/Editor David Paxton
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2005) pp. 35
The Organist Volume 100 Number 1 March 1996: A Bi-Monthly Publication for Church Organists
Composer/Editors Gregg Sewell; Robert J. Hughes
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1996) pp. 4
The Organ Portfolio Volume 48 Number 5 June 1985: A Bi-monthly Anthology for Church Organists
Composer/Editors Dorothy Wells; Lani Smith
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1985) pp. 23

Piano Solo

The Church Pianist Volume 14 Number 6 July August 1998: The Pianist's Companion for the Church Year
Composer/Editors Hugh S. Livingston, Jr.; Todd Kendall
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1998) pp. 34

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