112 Familiar Hymns and Gospel Songs #80
Tune Title: [O happy day that fixed my choice] First Line: O happy day that fixed my choice Composer: E. F. Rimbault Date: 1945
112 Familiar Hymns and Gospel Songs #80
Title: | HAPPY DAY (Rimbault) |
Composer (attributed to): | Edward F. Rimbault (1854) |
Meter: | 8.8.8.8 with refrain |
Incipit: | 51235 12334 32132 |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | William McDonald's Wesleyan Sacred Harp |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
William J. Reynolds, in his Companion to Baptist Hymnal (1976), p. 161, wrote as follows:
Happy Day appeared in William McDonald’s Wesleyan Sacred Harp (Boston, 1854), set to “Jesus, my All, to heaven is gone” with the present refrain, "Happy day, happy day, When Jesus washed my sins away!" Doddridge’s hymn was given as an alternate text. It is quite possible that the tune was known prior to this date and appeared in earlier collections. McCutchan indicates that the hymn tune refrain is from a song by Edward F. Rimbault, entitled “Happy Land.” More than likely the rest of the tune was the work of some anonymous musician or musicians.
Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations
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Organ Solo
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Piano Solo
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Piano and Organ Duet
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Voices: Vocal Quartet
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