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[We sing of a city whose streets are of gold]

[We sing of a city whose streets are of gold]

Composer: H. R. Palmer
Published in 4 hymnals


Composer: H. R. Palmer

Palmer, Horatio Richmond, MUS. DOC, was born April 26, 1834. He is the author of several works on the theory of music; and the editor of some musical editions of hymnbooks. To the latter he contributed numerous tunes, some of which have attained to great popularity, and 5 of which are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, London, 1881. His publications include Songs of Love for the Bible School; and Book of Anthems, the combined sale of which has exceeded one million copies. As a hymnwriter he is known by his "Yield not to temptation," which was written in 1868, and published in the National Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, from which it passed, with music by the author, into his Songs of Love, &c, 1874, and other collections. In A… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title: [We sing of a city whose streets are of gold]
Composer: H. R. Palmer
Incipit: 53322 17653 55112
Copyright: Public Domain
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Instances in all hymnals

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Garnered Gems #78

Garnered Gems #78

Our Sunday-School Songs #136

Our Sunday-School Songs #136
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Select Sunday School Songs #136

Select Sunday School Songs #136
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Songs of Glory-Land #71

Songs of Glory-Land #71
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