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SAVANNAH (55432)

Composer: Tobias Friedrich

An early member of and leader among Count Zinzendorf's Moravian community, its first music director, responsible for shaping many of its earliest musical traditions. "Tobias Friedrich, First Musician of the renewed Moravian Church," This Month in Moravian History, Moravian Archives (Bethlehem, PA), No. 13 (Nov. 2006). Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title: SAVANNAH (55432)
Composer: Tobias Friedrich (ca. 1735)
Place Of Origin: Herrnhut
Meter: 7.7.7.7
Incipit: 55432 12325 54321
Notes: Also known as: HERRNHUT, HÖCHSTER PRIESTER, EDYFIELD, DESPEDIDA
Key: D Major
Source: Choral-Buch zu der Orgel in Herrnhaag gehörig, c. 1735;Joh. Thommen's Erbaulicher Musicalischer Christen-Schatz, Basel, 1745;Foundery Collection, 1742
Copyright: Public Domain
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Notes

Robin Leaver, "The origins of the tune SAVANNAH," HSGBI Bulletin 153, vol. 10, no. 1 (January 1982), pp. 26–30.

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Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • Hymn Tunes in Lower Keyes: The Book to Grab When the Congregation Complains that the Hymns are Too High!
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2011) pp. 254
  • Hymn Tunes in Lower Keys: The Book to Grab When the Congregation Complains that the Hymns are Too High!
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2011) pp. 254
  • 200 Last Verses: Completely Revised to Complement the Keys in Major Hymn Books
    Composer/Editor Noel Rawsthorne
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2009) pp. 161
  • The Organist's Great Big Lent & Easter Book: A Feast of Music for the Greatest Season of the Year
    Composer/Editor June Nixon
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2009) pp. 368
  • The Really Big Descant Book - Full Music Edition: 250 Settings to Raise the Roof by the World's Finest Church Music Composers
    Composer/Editor Christopher Gower
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2009) pp. 199
  • Restrained Last Verses: Varied Accompaniments for Popular Hymns
    Composer/Editor June Nixon
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2003) pp. 122
  • Last Verse Extravaganza for Organ: 200 Fabulous Arrangements
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2001) pp. 162
  • The Ultimate Finishing Touch: Last-verse Arrangements of Well-loved Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Harrison Oxley
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2000) pp. 130
  • More Hymns for Occasions: One Hundred Special Arrangements
    Composer/Editor Colin Mawby
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1997) pp. 71
  • After the Last Verse: 200 Hymn Improvisations
    Composer/Editor Malcolm Archer
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1995) pp. 161

Organ Solo

  • Easy Organ Library Volume 71
    Composer/Editor James Mansfield
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2022) pp. 6
  • Easy Organ Library Volume 70
    Composer/Editor Anthony Giamanco
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2021) pp. 14
  • The Organist Volume 124 Number 7 March April 2021: The Service Music Companion for the Church Organist
    Composer/Editors Carson Cooman; James Mansfield
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2021) pp. 6
  • The Organist Volume 124 Number 4 September October 2020: The Service Music Companion for the Church Organist
    Composer/Editors Carson Cooman; Anthony Giamanco
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2020) pp. 14
  • Oxford Hymn Settings for Organists Volume 4 Easter and Ascension: 29 Original Pieces on Hymns for Easter and Ascension
    Composer/Editors Rebecca Groom Te Velde; David Blackwell
    Published By: Oxford University Press (2015) pp. 95
  • 150 Hymn Preludes Book 2 Hymn Tune L - W: Short and Playable Pieces in Keys to Match All Popular Hymn Books
    Composer/Editor Stanley Vann
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2010) pp. 490
  • The Organist's Great Big Lent & Easter Book: A Feast of Music for the Greatest Season of the Year
    Composer/Editors Rosalie Bonighton; June Nixon
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2009) pp. 364
  • A Wesley Organbook: Eight Hymn Tune Preludes
    Composer/Editor Alfred V. Fedak
    Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2006) pp. 27
  • Early American Hymn Tunes - William Billings
    Composer/Editors Robert J. Powell; William Billings
    Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2001) pp. 14
  • Hymn Preludes for the Church Year Book 1: Feasts and Festivals
    Composer/Editor Stanley Vann
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2001) pp. 259, 262
  • The Organist's Companion from Lent to Easter: Over 50 Seasonal Pieces for Organ
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2000) pp. 56
  • Organ Miniatures: 200 Short Improvisations on Familiar Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor June Nixon
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1999) pp. 129
  • Preludes on the Great Hymn Tunes of Lent, Holy Week and Easter
    Composer/Editor Stanley Vann
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1999) pp. 122
  • 100 Hymn Preludes for Manuals
    Composer/Editor Philip Lane
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1996) pp. 78
  • Hymn Preludes for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter
    Composer/Editors Rosalind Dean; Tamzin Howard; Rosalie Bonighton
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1995) pp. 66
  • Music for Organ: Chorale and Hymn Preludes Set 1
    Composer/Editor Stanley Vann
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1993) pp. 8
  • Ten Little Organ Improvisations on Moravian Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Karoly Kope
    Published By: Hinshaw Music, Inc. (1990) pp. 14
  • The Parish Organist Part Twelve: Thirty-five Preludes on Familiar Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editors Willem Mudde; Paul Bouman
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1966) pp. 42

Piano Solo

  • What Can I Play on Sunday? Complete Collection: 610 Easily Prepared Piano Arrangements for Services throughout the Year
    Composer/Editor Cindy Berry
    Published By: Alfred Music Publishing Company, Inc. (2013) pp. 156
  • The Church Pianist Volume 18 Number 1 September 2001: The Pianist's Companion for the Church Year
    Composer/Editor Fred B. Binckes
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2001) pp. 9
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