[Nearer the cross! my heart can say]

[Nearer the cross! my heart can say]

Composer: Phoebe Palmer Knapp
Published in 154 hymnals


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Composer: Phoebe Palmer Knapp

As a young girl Phoebe Palmer Knapp (b. New York, NY, 1839; d. Poland Springs, ME, 1908) displayed great musical talent; she composed and sang children’s song at an early age. The daughter of the Methodist evangelist Walter C. Palmer, she was married to John Fairfield Knapp at the age of sixteen. Her husband was a founder of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and after his death, she shared her considerable inherited wealth with various charitable organizations. She composed over five hundred gospel songs, of which the tunes for “Blessed Assurance” and “Open the Gates of the Temple” are still popular today. Bert Polman Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [Nearer the cross! my heart can say]
Composer: Phoebe Palmer Knapp
Meter: 8.6.8.6 with refrain
Incipit: 32123 55515 53323
Key: D Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Arrangements

Organ Solo

  • Gospel Hymn Devotions - Number Two: Fourteen Transcriptions for Organ - Standard or Spinet Keyboards
    Composer/Editors Dorothy Wells; Stewart Landon
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1971) pp. 28
  • The Organist Volume 75 Number 1 March 1971: A Bi-Monthly Publication for Church Organists
    Composer/Editors Roger C. Wilson; Stewart Landon
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1971) pp. 48
  • Gospel Hymn Voluntaries Number One For Organ: Based on Familiar Gospel Hymns
    Composer/Editor Roy E. Nolte
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1964) pp. 6
  • Lorenz's Communion Hymn Voluntaries: For Organ
    Composer/Editor Roy E. Nolte
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1953) pp. 28
  • Lorenz's Gospel Hymn Voluntaries Number 1 for Organ: Based on Familiar Gospel Hymns
    Composer/Editor Roy E. Nolte
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1952) pp. 6
  • Lorenz's Gospel Hymn Voluntaries for Organ: Based on Familiar Gospel Hymns
    Composer/Editor Roy E. Nolte
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1952) pp. 6
  • The Organist Volume 55 Number 1 March 1951: Voluntaries for the Church Organ
    Composer/Editors Rob Roy Peery; Roy E. Nolte
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1951) pp. 14

Piano Solo

  • Rob Roy Perry's Gospel Hymn Pianist
    Composer/Editors Rob Roy Peery; Roy E. Nolte
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1956) pp. 60

Media

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #680
  • Four-part harmony, full-score (PDF, NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #4512
Text: Nearer the Cross
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)

Instances

Instances (101 - 154 of 154)
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Songs of Calvary #171

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Songs of Faith and Hope #31

Songs of Faith and Praise #320

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Songs of Full Salvation #7

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Songs of Help #99

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Songs of Love and Praise No. 4 #223

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Songs of Praise and Victory #59

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Songs of Salvation #142

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Songs of the Assembly #213

Songs Of The Church #612

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Songs Of The Church #612

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Songs of the King #175

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Special Songs #121

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Spiritual Songs for Gospel Meetings and the Sunday School #59

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Standard Hymns and Spiritual Songs #402

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Standard Revival Songs #20

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Sun-Shine Songs #37

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Tabernacle Hymns #269

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The Best Gospel Songs and their composers #202

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The Canadian Hymnal #114

The Canadian Hymnal #114

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The Cyber Hymnal #4512

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The Epworth Hymnal No. 2 #177

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The Finest of the Wheat #28

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The Gospel Choir #7

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The Gospel Pilot Hymnal #185

The Great Christian Hymnal #367

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The Harp of Glory #65

The Herald #222

The Hymnal of the Evangelical Mission Covenant Church of America #244

The Mennonite Hymnary, published by the Board of Publication of the General Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America #491

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The Message in Song #73

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The Most Popular Hymns #97

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The New Make Christ King #220

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The New Song #34

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The Praise Book #283

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The Praise Hymnal #107

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The Service Song Book #45

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The Tribute of Praise and Methodist Protestant Hymn Book #660b

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The Voice of Triumph (19th ed.) #76

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The Young People's Hymnal #137

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Triumphant Songs No.2 #36

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Triumphant Songs No.4 #113

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Triumphant Songs No.5 #84

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Triumphant Songs Nos. 1 and 2 Combined #254

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Triumphant Songs Nos. 3 and 4 Combined #285

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Twentieth (20th) Century Songs Part One #147

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Voices of Praise #226

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Voices of Victory #289

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Waves of Glory No. 2 #156

Wonder Hymns of Faith #223

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World Wide Revival Songs #159

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Zion's Delight #215

Pages

Exclude 149 pre-1979 instances
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