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Popular 19th century American religious hymns?
For the past six months I have been purchasing early to mid-19th century American hymnals to arrange hymns selected from them for performances at Civil War re-enactment church services. As of today, I have arranged 63 hymns which are far more than the ensemble will need for any one church service. My concern though is that I may have overlooked some major hymns that were very popular in the time period leading up to the 1860s.
Would any religious music expert that use Yahoo Answers provide me with what you consider to be the essential early to mid-19th century hymns sung by American congregations? Thank you.
I have amassed a rather large collection of early to mid-19th century hymnals. I'm needing titles of the most popular hymns from this era leading up to the American Civil War. "Faith of Our Fathers" dates 1865 which could be suitable, but I'm trying to find hymns that were in used up to and through the war. The spring of 1865 was the last year of the conflict.
4 Answers
- MarkLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
"Faith of Our Fathers" comes to mind.
The 19th century was a time when most of the hymns created were sort of somber and dreary.
- 8 years ago
Try to find a book by Kenneth W.Osbeck. You'd find what you need in abundance.
Additional:
. Here are some that you might be looking for:
Sweet Hour of Prayer, William W Watford (1772-1850)
What a Friend We Have in Jesus, Joseph Scriven (1819-1886)
God Moves in a Mysterious Way, William Cowper (1731-1800)
Jesus Savior, Pilot Me, Edwad Hopper (1818-1888)
Savior, Teach Me Day by Day, Jane E Leeson (1807-1882)
- Anonymous8 years ago
If you haven't already, you should also put your question in the Histiry category, and maybe find another one of two catregories that might apply. You had a good first answer, but my experience is that most Christians in this category just want to argue with atheists. "College plus" might be a good category, or a category about our Culture.
- ?Lv 68 years ago
Would you look for older ones? Because "How Great Thou Art" comes to mind.
"O Lord my God,
When I in awesome wonder
Consider all the worlds Thy hands had made.
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power through out the Universe displayed!"
"Then sings my soul!
My Savior God to Thee!
How great Thou art!
How great Thou art.
Repeat."
Source(s): Roman Catholic
