Tune: BOURBON

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BOURBON

Composer (attributed to): Freeman Lewis (1825)
Published in 39 hymnals

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Piano/Organ
	Thine the Glory - Organ Music for Lent a…

Choral
	From Deep Distress and Troubled Thoughts

Instrumental
	Two Lenten Hymns for Flute, Oboe and Org…

Composer (attributed to): Freeman Lewis

Freeman Lewis USA 1780-1859. Born at Basking Ridge, NJ, he became a surveyor, writer, and traveling school teacher who played the organ and wrote music on the side. His family moved to Fayette, PA, in 1796. In 1809 he married Rebecca A Craft, and they had 11 children: Runyan, David, George, James, John, William, Levi. Alpheus, Thomas, Margaret, and Mary Ann. Three died young (of flux and scarlet fever). He compiled and published a book of camp meeting hymns and other sacred music:”The beauties of harmony” (1813-16-18), which included some of his own compositions. An appendix to it contained explanations of musical terms amd rules and principles of composition. These were sometimes used in singing schools. He also served as cou… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	BOURBON
Composer (attributed to):	Freeman Lewis (1825)
Place Of Origin:	United States
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Incipit:	51134 31711 11313
Key:	f minor
Source:	Beauties of Harmony, Pittsburgh, 1828;Columbian Harmony, 1825
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

Take Up Thy Cross, the Savior Said

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Alternative Tunes

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Notes

A pentatonic (five-pitch) folk tune from the southern United States, BOURBON fits well with the penitential text of Psalm 38. The tune calls for unison singing, with accompaniment providing a firmly articulated rhythm. Like many pentatonic tunes, when unaccompanied it can be sung in canon after either one or two measures.

Included in Columbian Harmony (1825), BOURBON was credited there to Freeman Lewis (1780-1859) and set to "Twas on that Dark and Doleful Night," a text often attributed to Isaac Watts. The tune appeared in several other nineteenth-century songbooks, among them Hauser's Hesperian Harp (1848). The tune title presumably refers to the aristocratic French family whose descendants included Henry IV, Phillip V, and Charles III, and after which a Kentucky county is named.

The harmonization (1958) is by Louise McAllister (b. Louisville, KY, 1913; d. Richmond, VA, 1960). She spent her childhood in Louisville, where her father was a professor at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. In 1925, when her father began teaching at Union Theological Seminary, she moved to Richmond, Virginia, and lived there the rest of her life. A pianist, composer, teacher, and writer, McAllister attended the Collegiate School in Richmond, Virginia, and Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia. She published many piano compositions and harmonizations of folk-hymn melodies.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1987

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Timeline

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Piano/Organ Easy Organ Library, Vol. 51 Thine the Glory - Organ Music for Lent and Easter O Love, How Deep (Expressive Piano Solos for Holy Week) More Piano/Organ...
Choral From Deep Distress and Troubled Thoughts More Choral...
Instrumental Two Lenten Hymns for Flute, Oboe and Organ More Instrumental...
PowerPoint TAKE UP THY CROSS (United Methodist Hymnal 415) TAKE UP YOUR CROSS (Lift Up Your Hearts 326) More PowerPoint...

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

Hymn Introductions Alternate Harmonizations Volume 2
Composer/Editor John E. Wigal
Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2021) pp. 6
Free Harmonizations of Favorite Hymns Volume 4: The Easter Season
Composer/Editor James M. Guthrie
Published By: Self-published (2017) pp. LL
Twenty-Six Hymn Introductions
Composer/Editor John Eggert
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2015) pp. 4
The Art of Hymn Playing Volume 2: 250 Preludes Introductions Free Accompaniments & Alternate Harmonizations
Composer/Editor Charles Callahan
Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2009) pp. 26-27
Introductions and Alternate Accompaniments for Organ Volume 7: Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Hymns 640 - 704
Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Mark Weiler; David Christiansen
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2007) pp. 667
Introductions and Alternate Accompaniments for Piano Volume 7: Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Hymns 640 - 704
Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Mark Weiler; John Carter
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2007) pp. 667
O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing Volume II Lent and Palm Sunday: Hymn Introductions, Interludes & New Harmonizations
Composer/Editor Larry Visser
Published By: Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc. (2005) pp. 13
Hymn Intonations, Preludes, and Free Harmonizations Volume XIII: Intonations, Harmonizations and Interludes
Composer/Editor David Hurd
Published By: Selah Publishing Company, Inc. (2004) pp. 3-4
Twenty-Five Organ Harmonizations: Alternate Hymn Settings in Various Styles
Composer/Editor Harold J. Owen
Published By: GIA Publications, Inc. (2002) pp. 4
Free Harmonizations of Hymn Tunes: By Fifty American Composers
Composer/Editor D. DeWitt Wasson
Published By: Hinshaw Music, Inc. (1984) pp. 53
The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 7: Lent: A - Herzlich
Composer/Editors Herbert Gotsch; Charles W. Ore
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1982) pp. 19
All Praise to You, Eternal God: Organ Accompaniments for Thirty Hymn Tune Canons
Composer/Editor Donald Busarow
Published By: Augsburg Publishing House (1980) pp. 7

Organ Solo

The Organist's Library Volume 63
Composer/Editors Dmitry Bortniansky; Iouri Grichetchkine
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2018) pp. 6
The Organ Portfolio Volume 80 Number 4 March April 2017: The Service Music Anthology for the Church Organist
Composer/Editors Carson P. Cooman; Peter Niedmann
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2017) pp. 6
The Organist's Companion Volume 36 Number 2 January 2014 General, Lent, Holy Week, Funerals: A Bi-monthly Journal of Quality Organ Music for the Practical Church Musician
Composer/Editors Wayne Leupold; William D. Gudger
Published By: Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc. (2014) pp. 3
Easy Organ Library Volume 51
Composer/Editor Edward Broughton
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2012) pp. 14
The Sacred Organ Journal Volume 46 Number 3 January February 2012: A Bi-Monthly Anthology for Church Organists
Composer/Editor Gilbert M. Martin
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2012) pp. 12
The Sacred Organ Journal Volume 46 Number 3 January February 2012: The Organist's Companion for the Church Year
Composer/Editor Gilbert M. Martin
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2012) pp. 12
The Organist Volume 115 Number 1 March April 2011: The Service Music Companion for Church Organists
Composer/Editors Gilbert M. Martin; Edward Broughton
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2011) pp. 14
Thine the Glory: Accessible Organ Music for Lent and Easter
Composer/Editor Wilbur C. Held
Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2005) pp. 19
Lenten Chorales for Organ
Composer/Editor Robert J. Powell
Published By: The H. W. Gray Company, Inc. (2002) pp. 14
Chantworks Set II - Lent, Passiontide, Easter: Organ Music for the Church Year based Upon Gregorian Chant Melodies
Composer/Editor Gerald Near
Published By: Aureole Editions (1998) pp. 5
The Organ Portfolio Volume 61 Number 3 January February 1998: A Bi-monthly Anthology for the Church Organist
Composer/Editors Dorothy Wells; Edward Broughton
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1998) pp. 3
The Sacred Organ Journal Volume 31 Number 4 March April 1997: A Bi-Monthly Anthology for Church Organists
Composer/Editors James Mansfield; Joseph Prentiss
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1997) pp. 14
Sent Forth: Short Postludes for the Day: Commissioned by the Oklahoma City Chapter of the AGO
Composer/Editor Robert J. Powell
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (1995) pp. 10
The Sacred Organ Folio No. 39
Composer/Editor Edward Broughton
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1989) pp. 12
The Sacred Organ Journal Volume 23 Number 4 March 1989: A Bi-Monthly Anthology for Church Organists
Composer/Editors Howard Wells; Edward Broughton
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1989) pp. 12
The Psaltery Organ Book
Composer/Editor Gilbert M. Martin
Published By: Psaltery Music Publications (1983) pp. 9
11 Compositions for Organ Set III
Composer/Editor Charles W. Ore
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1982) pp. 32
The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 7: Lent: A - Herzlich
Composer/Editors Herbert Gotsch; Charles W. Ore
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1982) pp. 16, 18
Early American Folk Hymns for Organ
Composer/Editor Gilbert M. Martin
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1980) pp. 28
The Sacred Organ Folio No. 10
Composer/Editor Gilbert M. Martin
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1974) pp. 3
The Sacred Organ Journal Volume 9 Number 1 September 1974: A Bi-Monthly Anthology for Church Organists
Composer/Editor Gilbert M. Martin
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1974) pp. 3

Piano Solo

Words of the Master: Hymns of the Christian Life for Piano
Composer/Editor Lani Smith
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2014) pp. 15
O Love, How Deep: Expressive Piano Solos for Holy Week
Composer/Editor William Ringham
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2011) pp. 20