Lowell Mason

Life

Born: 8 January 1792

Died: 11 August 1872

Biography

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List of choral works

Sacred music

Anthems & Introits As the hart panteth I will extol thee The Lord bless thee Now unto him Our soul waiteth for the Lord Pray for the peace of Jerusalem Search me, O God Other sacred works No works currently available Secular music The evening sail The Fox and the Grapes Io! the snow! Laura Mary had a little lamb (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

Hymns & hymn settings Boston From Greenland's icy mountains Joy to the world My faith looks up to Thee Nain Nearer, my God, to thee Star of peace Work, for the night is coming!

Arrangements by Lowell Mason

• Blest is the man, who shuns the place (Friedrich Ernst Fesca)
• Come, gracious Spirit, heavenly Dove (Anonymous)
• Come, let us lift our joyful eyes (Karl Gotthelf Gläser)
• How precious, Lord, thy sacred word (Friedrich Schneider)
• Lord of all being, throned afar (Anonymous)

 
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Publications

1821 – The Boston Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music 1824 – Select Chants, Doxologies 1830 – Choral Harmony 1831 – Church Psalmody 1831-1837 – Spiritual Songs for Social Worship (4 vols.; first author: Thomas Hastings) 1832 – Lyra Sacra 1832-1833 – The Choir, or Union Collection 1833 – Sacred Melodies 1834 – The Boston Collection of Anthems 1834 – Sentences, or Short Anthems, Hymn Tunes, and Chants 1834-1835 – The Sacred Harp, or Eclectic Harmony 1835 – The Boston Academy's Collection of Church Music 1836 – Occasional Psalm and Hymn Tunes 1838-1840 – The Seraph: A Monthly Publication of Church Music 1839 – The Boston Anthem Book 1839 – The Modern Psalmist 1840-1841 – The Sacred Harp, or Beauties of Church Music 1841 – Carmina Sacra 1841 – The Harp 1842 – Book of Chants

1842 – Chapel Hymns 1843 – Musical Service of the Protestant Episcopal Church 1843 – Songs of Asaph 1845 – The Psaltery 1847 – The Choralist 1848 – The Congregational Tune Book 1848 – The National Psalmist 1849 – Fifty-Nine Select Psalm and Hymn Tunes 1849-1850 – The Hymnist 1850 – Cantica Laudis 1850 – The New Carmina Sacra 1852 – Mason's Hand-book of Psalmody 1853 – Congregational Church Music 1854 – The Hallelujah 1859 – The Sabbath Hymn and Tune Book 1860 – The People's Tune Book 1866 – The New Sabbath Hymn and Tune Book 1867 – The New Sabbath Hymn and Tune Book: Baptist Ed. 1869 – Carmina Sacra Enlarged: The American Tune Book 1869 – Congregational Church Music

References

• Mason, Henry L. 1944. Hymn-Tunes of Lowell Mason: A Bibliography. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The University Press.

External websites:

• More complete list of Mason's publications