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[When I was but a little child, how well I recollect]

[When I was but a little child, how well I recollect]

Composer: Charles M. Fillmore (1898)
Published in 53 hymnals


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Composer: Charles M. Fillmore

Charles Millard Fillmore, 1860-1952 Born: Ju­ly 15, 1860, Par­is, Il­li­nois. Died: Sep­tem­ber 17, 1952, In­di­an­a­po­lis, In­di­a­na. Fillmore won a mu­sic schol­ar­ship at the Cin­cin­na­ti Coll­ege of Mu­sic, then taught for a year at Bath Sem­in­a­ry in Ow­ings­ville, Ken­tucky. He then tra­veled for about a year and taught sing­ing class­es in var­i­ous parts of Amer­i­ca. He then went for ad­di­tion­al mu­sic stu­dies in Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio. He stu­died for the min­is­try at But­ler Un­i­ver­si­ty in In­di­an­a­po­lis, In­di­a­na, grad­u­at­ing in 1890. He pas­tored in La­fay­ette, In­di­a­na; Shel­by­ville, In­di­a­na; was "State Evan­gel­ist" (for on… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [When I was but a little child, how well I recollect]
Composer: Charles M. Fillmore (1898)
Meter: 14.14.14.10 with refrain
Incipit: 55535 11712 6662
Key: A Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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Media

The Cyber Hymnal #6821
Text: Tell Mother I'll Be There
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)
Timeless Truths #373
Text: Tell Mother I'll Be There
  • Tell_Mother_Ill_Be_There.pdf (PDF)

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Alabanzas Favoritas No. 2 #196

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The Cyber Hymnal #6821

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Timeless Truths #373

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