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A Book of Song and Service

Publication Date: 1905 Publisher: Unitarian Sunday-School Society Publication Place: Boston Editors: Edward A. Horton

Take the Name, Our Father, with You

Author: Lydia Baxter Appears in 648 hymnals First Line: Take the name our Father, with you Refrain First Line: Precious Name, O how sweet Topics: God our Father Used With Tune: [Take the name our Father, with you]

The Lord's Prayer

Appears in 737 hymnals First Line: Our Father, who art in heaven Topics: Worship and Prayer Used With Tune: [Our Father, who art in heaven]

The Light Pours Down From Heaven

Author: Anonymous Appears in 43 hymnals Topics: Light and truth Used With Tune: MISSIONARY HYMN

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Tunes

Tune authorities

[There is beauty all around]

Appears in 70 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. McNaughton Incipit: 53321 61565 32345 Used With Text: Love at Home

OLD HUNDRED

Appears in 1,974 hymnals Tune Sources: The Genevan Psalter Incipit: 11765 12333 32143 Used With Text: From All That Dwell Below the Skies

[The light of truth is breaking]

Appears in 462 hymnals Incipit: 55554 35123 33211 Used With Text: The Light of Truth is Breaking

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Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Welcome! Welcome!

Hymnal: BSSS1905 #1 (1905) First Line: Welcome, welcome is the greeting Refrain First Line: Hands of cheer and hears sincere Topics: Opening Languages: English Tune Title: [Welcome, welcome is the greeting]

Father, We Love to Meet

Author: Elizabeth Parson Hymnal: BSSS1905 #2 (1905) Topics: Opening Languages: English Tune Title: [Father, we love to meet]

To Thee, O God

Author: Wm. H. Baldwin Hymnal: BSSS1905 #3 (1905) First Line: To Thee, O God, we offer Topics: Opening Languages: English Tune Title: [To Thee, O God, we offer]

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People

Authors, composers, editors, etc.

Felice Giardini

1716 - 1796 Hymnal Number: 45 Composer of "ITALIAN HYMN" in A Book of Song and Service Felice Giardini, born in Italy. When young, he studied singing, harpsichord, and violin. He became a composer and violin virtuoso. By age 12 he was playing in theatre orchestras. His most instructive lesson: While playing a solo passage during an opera, he decided to show off his skills by improvising several bravura variations that the composer, Jommelli, had not written . Although the audience applauded loudly, Jomelli, who happened to be there, went up and slapped Giardini in the face. He learned a lesson from that. He toured Europe as a violinist, considered one of the greatest musical artists of his time. He served as orchestra leader and director of the Italian Opera in London, giving concerts. He tried to run a theatre in Naples, but encountered adversity. He went to Russia, but had little fortune there, where he died. John Perry

Adelaide Anne Procter

1825 - 1864 Hymnal Number: 144 Author of "Shadows of the Evening Hours" in A Book of Song and Service Not to be confused with Adelaide A. Pollard. Adelaide Anne Proctor was born in London, in 1825. Her father, Brian W. Proctor, is well known by his literary nom de guerre of Barry Cornwall. In 1853, Miss Proctor became a contributor to Dickens' "Household Words." Her reputation as a poet was secured by the publication of her first volume of "Legends and Lyrics," in 1858. A second volume was added in 1860. She also published other compositions in poetry and prose. She died in 1864. She was a member of the Roman Catholic Church. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872. =============== Procter, Adelaide Anne, daughter of Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall), was born in Bedford Square, London, Oct. 30, 1825. In 1851 she entered the Roman communion, and died in London, Feb. 2, 1864. Miss Procter displayed more than usual intellectual powers at an early age. In later years she was skilled in music and languages. Her poetical gifts have been widely appreciated. Her Legends and Lyrics, A Book of Verse, was published in 1858. Of this an enlarged edition was published in 1862. Her hymns in common use from these two editions are:— 1. I do not ask, 0 Lord, that life may be. Resignation. In her Legends, &c., 1862. It is one of the most widely used of Miss Procter's hymns. 2. I thank Thee, 0 my God, Who made. Thankfulness. In her Legends, &c., 1858, p. 207, in 6 stanzas of 6 lines. In several collections, including the Hymnal Companion, it begins in an altered form, "My God, I thank Thee, Who hast made;" and in others, "Our God, we thank Thee, Who hast made." Bishop Bickersteth in his note on this hymn in the Hymnal Companion, 1816, says, "This most beautiful hymn by A. A. Procter (1858), touches the chord of thankfulness in trial, as perhaps no other hymn does, and is thus most useful for the visitation of the sick." 3. One by one the sands are going [flowing]. The links of Life. In her Legends, &c., 1858, p. 20, in 8 stanzas of 4 lines. 4. Rise, for the day is passing. Redeem the Time. In her Legends, &c., 1858. Sometimes given as "Arise, for the day is passing," as in Holy Song, 1869. 5. Strive; yet I do not promise. Strive, Wait, Pray. In her Legends, &c., 1858, p. 103, in 3 stanzas of 8 lines. 6. The way is long and dreary. Life a Pilgrimage. In her Legends, &c., 1858, p. 136, in 3 stanzas of 8 lines and a refrain. 7. The shadows of the evening hours. Evening. In her Legends, &c., 1862. 8. We ask for peace, 0 Lord. Peace with God. In her Legends, &c., 1858, p. 214, in 4 stanzas of 9 lines. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Hubert P. Main

1839 - 1925 Hymnal Number: 67 Composer of "[In heavenly love abiding]" in A Book of Song and Service Hubert Platt Main DD USA 1839-1925. Born at Ridgefield, CT, he attended singing school as a teenager. In 1854 he went to New York City and worked as an errand boy in a wallpaper house. The next year he became an errand boy in the Bristow & Morse Piano Company. He was an organist, choir leader, and compiled books of music. He also helped his father edit the “Lute Songbook” by Isaac Woodbury. In 1866 he married Olphelia Louise Degraff, and they had two sons: Lucius, and Hubert. In 1867 he filled a position at William B Bradbury’s publishing house. After Bradbury’s death in 1868 the Bigelow & Main Publishers were formed as its successor. He also worked with his father until his father’s death in 1873. Contributors to their efforts were Fanny Crosby, Ira Sankey, Wilbur Crafts, and others. In addition to publishing, Main wrote 1000+ pieces of music, including part song, singing school songs, Sunday school music, hymns, anthems, etc. He also arranged music and collected music books. He 1891 he sold his collection of over 3500 volumes to the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL, where they were known as the Main Library. Some of his major publications include: “Book of Praise for the Sunday school” (1875), “Little pilgrim songs” (1884), “Hymns of Praise” (`1884), “Gems of song for the Sunday school” (1901), “Quartettes for men’s voices: Sacred & social selections” (1913). In 1922 Hope Publishing Company acquired Bigelow & Main. He was an editor, author, compiler, and composer, as well as publisher. He died in Newark, NJ. John Perry

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