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MORE LIKE JESUS (Doane)

MORE LIKE JESUS (Doane)

Composer: W. Howard Doane (1868)
Published in 31 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: MORE LIKE JESUS (Doane)
Composer: W. Howard Doane (1868)
Meter: 7.7.7.7
Incipit: 33322 11222 14323
Key: F Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Arrangements

Piano Solo

  • Gospel Time for Piano Volume 1
    Composer/Editors Hugh S. Livingston, Jr.; Lani Smith
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1994) pp. 44
  • Offertories for Piano
    Composer/Editors Hugh S. Livingston, Jr.; Lani Smith
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1989) pp. 18
  • The Church Pianist Volume 4 Number 5 May 1988: The Pianist's Companion for the Church Year
    Composer/Editors Hugh S. Livingston, Jr.; Lani Smith
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1988) pp. 30

Media

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #898
  • Four-part harmony, full-score (PDF, NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #4309
Text: More Like Jesus Would I Be
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)

Instances in all hymnals

Instances (1 - 3 of 3)
ScoreAudio

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #898

TextPage Scan

Hymns of Faith #397

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #4309

Include 28 pre-1979 instances
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