EL PARAN

Composer: Lowell Mason

Dr. Lowell Mason (the degree was conferred by the University of New York) is justly called the father of American church music; and by his labors were founded the germinating principles of national musical intelligence and knowledge, which afforded a soil upon which all higher musical culture has been founded. To him we owe some of our best ideas in religious church music, elementary musical education, music in the schools, the popularization of classical chorus singing, and the art of teaching music upon the Inductive or Pestalozzian plan. More than that, we owe him no small share of the respect which the profession of music enjoys at the present time as contrasted with the contempt in which it was held a century or more ago. In fact, the… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: EL PARAN
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Incipit: 13343 32113 34332
Key: G Major
Source: Carmina Sacra
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Instances

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Book of Worship with Hymns and Tunes #41

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Book of Worship #38

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Carmina Sacra #46b

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Carmina Sanctorum #78

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Carmina Sanctorum #79

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Frohe Lieder und Brüder-Harfe #197

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Hymn and Tune Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Round Note Ed.) #257

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Hymn and Tune Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Round Note Ed.) #258

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The National Baptist Hymnal #96

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The National Baptist Hymnal #98

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The National Baptist Hymnal #99

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The National Baptist Hymnal #181

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The National Baptist Hymnal #446

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The National Hymn Book of the American Churches #35

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