MISSIONARY HYMN (Mason)

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 >

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Tune Information

Title:	MISSIONARY HYMN (Mason)
Composer:	Lowell Mason (1823)
Meter:	7.6.7.6 D
Incipit:	13556 53171 43321
Key:	E♭ Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

From Greenland's Icy Mountain

All texts published with MISSIONARY HYMN (Mason)^ top

Alternative Tunes

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Timeline

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Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

Final Stanzas Volume 3: Hymn Settings for Organ and Descanting Instrument
Composer/Editor David Maxwell
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2013) pp. 26
Easy Hymn Accompaniments for Organ or Piano: Set II
Composer/Editor Edward H. Myer
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1995) pp. 50-51
The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 32: General: MC - More
Composer/Editors Richard Hillert; Ralph C. Schultz
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1985) pp. 36
Make a joyful noise: 25 Hymns and Carols for the Church Year for Unison Voices, treble instrument, and organ
Composer/Editor Max Drischner
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1965) pp. 38
Thirty Short Preludes on Well-Known Hymns for Organ
Composer/Editor Flor Peeters
Published By: C. F. Peters Corporation (1960) pp. 18

Organ Solo

Hymn Prelude Library Volume Seven Tunes M: Lutheran Service Book
Composer/Editors Kevin J. Hildebrand; Brian Henkelmann
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2015) pp. 64
Hymn Prelude Library Volume Five Tunes HI: Lutheran Service Book
Composer/Editors Kevin J. Hildebrand; Paul Grime
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2014) pp. 122
Hymn Tune Portraits
Composer/Editor Ronald A. Nelson
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2003) pp. 14
The Ward Organist Music Library 3: Intermediate Organ Preludes
Composer/Editor Darwin K. Wolford
Published By: Jackman Music Corporation (2001) pp. 8
Six Hymn Improvisations Set 1
Composer/Editor Kevin J. Hildebrand
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1998) pp. 28
All Hail!: Eight Hymn Preludes for Organ
Composer/Editor John Hanson
Published By: Harold Flammer Music Publishers Incorporated (1996) pp. 12
Ten Hymn Preludes for Organ
Composer/Editor Wolfgang Lampert
Published By: The Willis Music Company (1996) pp. 16
Praise to the Lord: Ten Easy Hymn Settings for Organ
Composer/Editor Gordon Young
Published By: Harold Flammer, Inc. (1994) pp. 8
Emergency Organ Book Volume Three: For All Occasions
Composer/Editors Dorothy Wells; James Mansfield
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1989) pp. 78
The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 32: General: MC - More
Composer/Editors Richard Hillert; Ralph C. Schultz
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1985) pp. 34
The Organist Volume 89 Number 4 September 1985: A Bi-monthly Magazine for Church Organists
Composer/Editor James Mansfield
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1985) pp. 3
Twenty Hymn Preludes: For Organ
Composer/Editor Peter Pindar Stearns
Published By: Coburn Press (1972) pp. 54
Hymn Preludes for the Liturgical Year Volume XIV The Kingdom of God Missions: For Organ in 24 Volumes Opus 100
Composer/Editor Flor Peeters
Published By: C. F. Peters Corporation (1969) pp. 23
Organ Offertories: Hymn and Gospel Song Transcriptions
Composer/Editor Winifred Lamb Winans
Published By: Lillenas Publishing Company (1963) pp. 3
One Hundred and One Hymns for Every Day: Hymns You'll Love to Sing and Play
Composer/Editor Chester Nordman
Published By: Hansen Publications, Inc. (1962) pp. 83
Thirty Short Preludes on Well-Known Hymns for Organ
Composer/Editor Flor Peeters
Published By: C. F. Peters Corporation (1960) pp. 18
Thirty Short Preludes on Well-Known Hymns for Organ: Opus 95
Composer/Editor Flor Peeters
Published By: C. F. Peters Corporation (1960) pp. 18
The Parish Organist Part Two: One Hundred Twenty Chorale Preludes, Voluntaries, and Postludes by Older Masters and Contemporary Composers
Composer/Editors Heinrich Fleischer; Theodore G. Stelzer
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1953) pp. 51
The Parish Organist Parts I to IV: One Hundred Twenty Chorale Preludes, Voluntaries, and Postludes by Older Masters and Contemporary Composers
Composer/Editors Heinrich Fleischer; Theodore G. Stelzer
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1953) pp. 103
76 Offertories on Hymns & Chorales
Composer/Editor Albert Beck
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1945) pp. 76
Seven Preludes or Postludes on Lowell Mason Hymns: For Organ
Composer/Editor Seth Bingham
Published By: The H. W. Gray Company, Inc. (1945) pp. 9
Stults' Hymn Paraphrases No. 1 for Pipe Organ
Composer/Editor Robert Morrison Stults
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1940) pp. 10
Ashford's Hymn Voluntaries No. 1: A Collection of Organ Voluntaries Based on Familiar Hymn Tunes
Composer/Editor Emma Louise Ashford
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1901) pp. 38

Piano Solo

Creative Keyboard's Complete Church Pianist: Hymn Arrangements for Every Occasion
Composer/Editor Gail Smith
Published By: Creative Keyboard Publications (2000) pp. 172
Rudy Atwood Piano Arrangements Vol. 5
Composer/Editor Rudy Atwood
Published By: Alma Records, Inc. (1968) pp. 9