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LONG SOUGHT HOME

Composer: Wilham Bobo

William Bobo was born in New Prospect, Union County, South Carolina and lived in Cross Keys. He was the nephew of B. F. White. He served as deacon, chorister and Sunday school superintendent at Padgett's Creek Baptist Church. He was buried at Padgett's Creek. His tune, LONG SOUGHT HOME, appeared in the 1847 edition of Walker's Southern Harmony Dianne Shapiro, from The Makers of the Sacred Harp by David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010) Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title: LONG SOUGHT HOME
Composer: Wilham Bobo
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Incipit: 56135 53321 32116
Copyright: Public Domain
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Timeline

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Arrangements

Organ Solo

  • Early American Folk Hymns for Organ
    Composer/Editor Gilbert M. Martin
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1980) pp. 31
  • Lorenz's Organ Album No. 75: Three-Staff Voluntaries for the Church Organ
    Composer/Editor Gilbert M. Martin
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1977) pp. 35
  • The Organ Portfolio Volume 41 Number 2 December 1977: A Bi-Monthly Anthology for Church Organists
    Composer/Editors Lani Smith; Gilbert M. Martin
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1977) pp. 35
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Instances

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The Sacred Harp #235

The Sacred Harp #235
Include 4 pre-1979 instances
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