FATHER KEMP'S OLD FOLKS' CONCERT TUNES Newly Revised and Greatly Enlarged Boston, Oliver Ditson Company, 1889 Old Folks' Concerts were popular inthe United Stares in the last half of the 19th century when goups of musicians would travel mainly in rural areas and give performances of popular religious and secular music. In New England "Father" Robert Kemp of Boston was the chief organizer and his group of both instrumental and vocal performers dressed in early American costume would come to a community where they were lodged mainly with local families and give concerts. Kemp published a book of 64 tunes about 1860 and enlarged it in 1889. The most available edition seems to be the 1899 printing. My copy is in very bad shape with torn paperback cover, loose pages and extensive doodling on the front and back pages and the preface heavily covered with green crayon. Titles in caps, first lines in Roman: ALL HAIL THE POWER OF JESUS' NAME 27 AMERICA 75 ANTHEM FOR EASTER 54 ANVIL CHORUS 62 AULD LANG SYNE 86 BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC 43 BATTLE OF STONINGTON 70 BEFORE JEHOVAH'S AWFUL THRONE 77 BETHANY 75 Be Thou , O God, Exalted High 3 BLESSING 48 BLUE HILL 6 BOSTON 14 BRIDGEWATER 5 BUCKFIELD 31 CALVARY 100 CAMBRIDGE 26 CELESTIAL WATERING 15 CHESTER 29 CHILD OF MORTALITY 50 CHINA 27 COLUMBIA, THE LAND OF THE BRAVE 60 Come, Holy Spirit 25 Come, My Beloved, Haste Away 19 Come, Sound His Praise Abroad 67 COMPLAINT 30 CONFIDENCE 4 CORONATION 27 COUSIN JEDEDIAH 82 DAVID'S LAMENTATION 12 DEAREST SPOT OF EARTH 27 DENMARK 77 DEVOTION 18 DOST THOU LOVE ME, SISTER RUTH? 80 DYING CHRISTIAN 44 Early, My God, Without Delay 7 Eternal Power, Whose High Abode 6 False Are the Men of High Degree 16 From the Third Heaven, Where God Resides 24 Gallant Ship From England Came 70 GERMAN HYMN (Pleyel) 5 GLORY HALLELUJAH 42 God of the Nations 62 GREENWICH 18 HAIL, COLUMBIA 64 Here I Find No Rest 67 Hill of Zion Yields 21 HOME AGAIN 87 HOME, SWEET HOME 86 How Beauteous Are Their Feet 28 How Long, Dear Savior, oh, How Long? 18 How Vain Are All Thongs Here Below 11 I AM THE ROSE OF SHARON 100 I AM WEARY 67 I Angels Sung a Savior's Birth 40 INVITATION 19 JEHOVAH'S PRAISE 92 JERUSALEM, MY GLORIOUS HOME 57 JOHN BROW 42 KIDD'S LAMENT 68 LENOX 8 Let Him to Whom We Now Belong 17 Let the High Heavens Your Song Invite 29 LISBON 16 Lord Descended From Above 22 Lord, Dismiss Us With Thy Blessing 48 LORD IS RISEN INDEED 54 Lord On High Proclaims 29 Lord, What a Thoughtless Wretch Was I 13 MAJESTY 22 MARSEILLES HYMN 66 MEAR 8 Methinks I See a Heavenly Host 14 'Mis Pleasures and Palaces 86 MILFORD 40 Miriam's Song 38 MONTAGUE 32 MONTGOMERY 7 Morning Sun Shines From the East 88 MOUNT SION 21 MY GRANDMA'S ADVICE 76 My Soul, Thy Great Creator Praise 5 My Thoughts, That Often Mount the Skies 109 NEARER, MY GOD, TO THEE 75 NEW DURHAM 11 NEW JERUSALEM 24 NORTHFIRLD 18 Now Can My Soul in God Rejoice 4 Now Shall My Head Be Lifted High 9 OCEAN 23 ODE ON SCIENCE 88 OLD FOLKS AT HOME 81 OLD HUNDRED 3 O Thou to Whom All Creatures Bow 26 O 'Twas a Joyful Sound 8 OUR FLAG IS THERE 72 PLAINFIELD 17 PORTLAND 33 RAINBOW 10 RED, WHITE AND BLUE 60 REVOLUTIONARY TEA 71 RUSSIA 16 Salvation!, oh, the Joyful Sound 26 Savior, Visit Thy Plantation 15 See What a Living Stone 108 SHERBURNE 20 SILVER STREET 67 So Fades the Lovely, Blooming Flower 5 SONG OF THE OLD FOLKS 86 SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE PILGRIMS 97 SONS OF ZION, COME BEFORE HIM 105 SOUND THE LOUD TIMBREL 38 Spare Us, O Lord, Aloud We Cry 30 STAFFORD 108 STAR SPANGLED BANNER 41 ST. THOMAS 29 ST. MARTIN'S 26 STRIKE THE CYNBAL 34 Sweet Is the Day of Sacred Rest 18 Sweet Is the Day of Sacred Rest 33 That Awful Day Will Surely Come 26 THERE IS A STREAM 110 There Was an Old Lady Lived Over the Sea 71 Thy Works of Glory, Mighty Lord 23 Times, Indeed, Do Greatly Change 84 'Tis By Thy Strength the Mountains Stand 10 'TIS THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER 74 TURNER 25 VICTORY 9 Vital Spark of Heavenly Flame 44 Welcome Sweet Day of Rest 16 WHEN GEORGE THE THIRD WAS KING 84 When Strangers Stand and Hear Me Tell 31 While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night 20 Why Do We Mourn Departing Friends? 27 WINDSOR 26 WITHIN A MILE OF EDINBORO' TOWN 73 WORCESTER 28 YANKEE DOODLE 69 YANKEE SLEIGH RIDE 90 Ye Sons of Freedom, Wake to Glory 66 Ye Sons of Men, With Joy Record 32 Ye Tribes of Adam, Join 8 You Captains Bold and Brave 68
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