A. M. E. C. Hymnal #256
Tune Title: KNOCKING KNOCKING First Line: Knocking, knocking, who is there? Composer: Geo. F. Root Key: E♭ Major Date: 1954
A. M. E. C. Hymnal #256

Root, George F., MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. Nos. 16, 100, 293, and 297. A sympathetic biographical sketch, with portrait, is in The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter, Sep. 1886. He died Aug. 6, 1895.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >| Title: | [Knocking, knocking, who is there] (Root) |
| Composer: | George F. Root (1870) |
| Meter: | 7.7.8.7.8.7 |
| Incipit: | 33335 43222 24321 |
| Key: | E♭ Major |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
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