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[There's a precious song that my heart doth sing]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William J. Kirkpatrick Incipit: 12333 21776 71222

Author: Chas. H. Gabriel Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: There's a precious song that my heart doth sing Refrain First Line: 'Tis a song of Jesus Used With Tune: [There's a precious song that my heart doth sing]

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The Precious Song

Author: Chas. H. Gabriel Hymnal: The Quiver of Sacred Song #66 (1880) First Line: There's a precious song that my heart doth sing Refrain First Line: 'Tis a song of Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [There's a precious song that my heart doth sing]

The Precious Song

Author: Chas. H. Gabriel Hymnal: The Quartet #255 (1884) First Line: There's a precious song that my heart doth sing Refrain First Line: 'Tis a song of Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [There's a precious song that my heart doth sing]

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Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Author of "The Precious Song" in The Quiver of Sacred Song Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman

William J. Kirkpatrick

1838 - 1921 Person Name: Wm. J. Kirkpatrick Composer of "[There's a precious song that my heart doth sing]" in The Quiver of Sacred Song William J. Kirkpatrick (b. Duncannon, PA, 1838; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1921) received his musical training from his father and several other private teachers. A carpenter by trade, he engaged in the furniture business from 1862 to 1878. He left that profession to dedicate his life to music, serving as music director at Grace Methodist Church in Philadelphia. Kirkpatrick compiled some one hundred gospel song collections; his first, Devotional Melodies (1859), was published when he was only twenty-one years old. Many of these collections were first published by the John Hood Company and later by Kirkpatrick's own Praise Publishing Company, both in Philadelphia. Bert Polman