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Morning, So Fair to see

Author: Vincent B. Silliman Meter: 6.6.9.6.6.8 Appears in 5 hymnals

Meter: 6.6.9.6.6.8 Appears in 526 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: T. Tertius Noble, 1867-1953 Tune Sources: A. H. Hoffmann von Fallersleben's Schlesische Volkslieder, 1842 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 11127 13333 42351 Used With Text: Morning, So Fair to See

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Morning, So Fair to See

Author: Vincent B. Silliman, 1894-1979 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #42 (1993) Meter: 6.6.9.6.6.8 Lyrics: 1 Morning, so fair to see, night, veiled in mystery — glorious the earth and resplendent skies! Pilgrims, we march along, singing our joyous song, as through an earthly paradise. 2 Tall are the verdant trees; deep are the flashing seas; glorious each wonder the seasons bring. Brighter is faith’s surmise, shining in pilgrim eyes, from which our waking spirits spring. 3 Age after age we rise, ‘neath the eternal skies, into the light from the shadowed past: still shall our pilgrim song, buoyant and brave and strong, resound while life and mountains last. Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Morning; Faith; Nature and the Countryside Languages: English Tune Title: SCHÖNSTER HERR JESU

Morning, so fair to see

Author: Vincent B. Silliman Hymnal: The Beacon Song and Service book #127 (1935) Meter: 6.6.9.6.6.8 Topics: Brotherhood and Service Languages: English Tune Title: ST. ELIZABETH (CRUSADER'S HYMN)

Morning, so fair to see

Author: V. B. Silliman Hymnal: Hymns of the Spirit for Use in the Free Churches of America #45 (1937) Languages: English Tune Title: ST. ELIZABETH (CRUSADER'S HYMN)

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Richard Storrs Willis

1819 - 1900 Person Name: Richard S. Willis Arranger of "ST. ELIZABETH (CRUSADER'S HYMN)" in The Beacon Song and Service book Richard Storrs Willis (February 10, 1819 – May 10, 1900) was an American composer, notably of hymn music. One of his hymns is "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" (1850), with lyrics by Edmund Sears. He was also a music critic and journal editor. Willis, whose siblings included Nathaniel Parker Willis and Fanny Fern, was born on February 10, 1819, in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Chauncey Hall, the Boston Latin School, and Yale College where he was a member of Skull and Bones in 1841. Willis then went to Germany, where he studied six years under Xavier Schnyder and Moritz Hauptmann. While there, he became a personal friend of Felix Mendelssohn. After returning to America, Willis served as music critic for the New York Tribune, The Albion, and The Musical Times, for which he served as editor for a time. He joined the New-York American-Music Association, an organization which promoted the work native of naturalized American composers. He reviewed the organization's first concert for their second season, held December 30, 1856, in the Musical World, as a "creditable affair, all things considered". Willis began his own journal, Once a Month: A Paper of Society, Belles-Lettres and Art, and published its first issue in January 1862. Willis died on May 7, 1900. His interment was located at Woodlawn Cemetery. His works and music compilations include: Church Chorals and Choir Studies (1850) Our Church Music (1856) Waif of Song (1876) Pen and Lute (1883) --en.wikipedia.org

T. Tertius Noble

1867 - 1953 Person Name: T. Tertius Noble, 1867-1953 Harmonizer of "SCHÖNSTER HERR JESU" in Singing the Living Tradition Thomas Tertius Nobel (1867-1953) was born in Bath, England, educated at the Royal College of Music, and was a noted composer and organist. He served as a church organist in Cambridge and Colchester. He moved to Ely Cathedral in 1892 as organist and choirmaster, and in 1898 to York Minster, where he founded the York Symphony Orchestra, directed the York Musical Society, conducted the York Pageant, and revived the York Musical Festival after a lapse of 75 years. He became an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Organists in 1905. In 1913, he moved to New York City, where he was organist at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church, and established its choir school and a boys’ choir. In addition to composing, he wrote about music education, and helped edit the 1916 Protestant Episcopal hymnal, and served on the music committee that prepared its 1940 successor. He wrote a wide range of music, but only his services, anthems and hymn tunes are still performed regularly. Died: May 4, 1953, Rockport, Massachusetts. http://www.hymntime.com/tch/

Vincent B. Silliman

1894 - 1979 Person Name: Vincent B. Silliman, 1894-1979 Author of "Morning, So Fair to See" in Singing the Living Tradition Silliman, Rev. Vincent Brown, D.D. (Hudson, Wisconsin, June 29, 1894-Feb. 1979, Yarmouth, Maine). He graduated from Meadville Theological School in 1920 and from the University of Minnesota in 1925. He served Unitarian churches in Buffalo, New York; Portland, Maine; Hollis, N.Y.; and Chicago, Illinois. He was a member of the committee which edited The Beacon Song and Service Book for Children and Young People (1935), and edited We Sing of Life (1955), an unusual collection of songs for children and young people, with a strong ethical emphasis, some set to familiar hymn tunes, others to interesting folk music. Mr. Silliman contributed to words of several songs. One of them, beginning "Morning, so fair to see" is also included in Hymns of the Spirit (1937). --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives