Thanks for being a Hymnary.org user. You are one of more than 10 million people from 200-plus countries around the world who have benefitted from the Hymnary website in 2024! If you feel moved to support our work today with a gift of any amount and a word of encouragement, we would be grateful.

You can donate online at our secure giving site.

Or, if you'd like to make a gift by check, please make it out to CCEL and mail it to:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
And may the promise of Advent be yours this day and always.

Click here to donate to Hymnary.org I have already donated. Please don't show this to me again

Melva W. Costen

Short Name: Melva W. Costen
Full Name: Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-
Birth Year: 1933

Melva W. Costen, a native of South Carolina, retired as Helmar Emil Nielsen Professor of Worship and Music, choral director, and chair of the church music degree program at Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She subsequently became the Visiting Professor of Liturgical Studies at the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut. She remains active in the Civil Rights Movement and as a teacher and consultant in area of church music, liturgy, and curriculum development. (2006)

--www.cokesbury.com/


TextsTunesHymnalsRecommendations
Tunes by Melva W. Costen (9)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
BALM IN GILEAD (Spiritual)Melva W. Costen (Arranger)232321 51231 33432
GO DOWN MOSESMelva W. Costen (Arranger)353322 33155 771
GO TELL ITMelva W. Costen (Harmonizer and Adapter)233216 51222 12323
HE IS KINGMelva W. Costen (Adapter)356123 56123 11223
LET US BREAK BREADMelva W. Costen (Arranger)356111 11322 11355
[Upon the mountain when my Lord spoke]Melva W. Costen (Adapter)511661 65565 32123
[Chariot rode on the mountain top]Melva W. Costen (Adapter)256111 56553 5633
WERE YOU THEREMelva W. Costen (Arranger)751333 21321 13555
[You'll hear the trumpet sound] (Spiritual)Melva W. Costen (Arranger)1333231 15534 22653
Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.