Tune: LOWELL (Nichol)

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LOWELL (Nichol)

Composer: H. Ernest Nichol (1905)
Published in 20 hymnals

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Piano/Organ
	Easter Triumph

Choral
	Hark, the Voice of Jesus Calling (TTBB)

Instrumental
	Alleluia, Sing to Jesus

Composer: H. Ernest Nichol

H. Ernest Nichol (b. Hull, Yorkshire, England, 1862; d. Skirlaugh, Yorkshire, England, 1926) had begun a study program in civil engineering when he decided to study music instead. In 1888 he received a bachelor's degree in music from Oxford University. Nichol wrote some 130 hymn tunes and texts, many under the pseudonym “Colin Sterne” (derived from his middle and last name); many were first sung at church school programs. Psalter Hymnal Handbook… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	LOWELL (Nichol)
Composer:	H. Ernest Nichol (1905)
Meter:	8.7.8.7 D
Incipit:	15351 23451 23217
Key:	A♭ Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

Here Am I, Send Me

Alleluia! Sing to Jesus

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Notes

Composed in 1905 by H. Ernest Nichol (b. Hull, Yorkshire, England, 1862; d. Skirlaugh, Yorkshire, England, 1926), LOWELL was first introduced in the Christian Reformed Church when it was included in the New Christian Hymnal in 1929.

Nichol had begun a study program in civil engineering when he decided to study music instead. In 1888 he received a bachelor's degree in music from Oxford University. Nichol wrote some 130 hymn tunes and texts, many under the pseudonym “Colin Sterne” (derived from his middle and last name); many were first sung at church school programs.

A strong tune LOWELL consists of several dramatic melodic phrases that are repeated and varied. Sing stanza 1 in unison with full, bright accompaniment; sing stanza 2 and 3 in harmony, preferably unaccompanied; then sing stanza 1 again in unison with full accompaniment, thus concluding the hymn in a more jubilant fashion (in tune with what Dix intended). Many other hymnals use HYFRYDOL (568) as a setting for this text.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook

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