Best 19th Century Gospel Lyrics Site?

Subject: RE: Best 19th Century Gospel Lyrics Site?
From: Burke
Date: 30 Apr 03 - 07:36 PM

Masato, I love the name approach to Cyber Hymnal. Here are more.

Fanny Crosby 1820-1915 wrote the lyrics for hundreds of Gospel songs.

Here are just a few people who wrote music for Crosby words and also others or even their own.

William Bradbury 1816-1868. He's early & I ignored him until I found him responsible for setting a Fanny Crosby poem. I guess one can hardly ignore the composer of Woodworth for "Just as I am." He's early enough to still be naming his tunes instead of naming them by the words as became more common later.

William Howard Doane, 1832-1915
Robert Lowry, 1826-1899
George C. Stebbins 1846-1945
William J. Kirkpatrick 1838-1921

Subject: RE: Best 19th Century Gospel Lyrics Site?
From: masato sakurai
Date: 30 Apr 03 - 10:51 AM

From The Cyber Hymnal:

Philip Paul Bliss

Ira David Sankey

~Masato

Subject: RE: Best 19th Century Gospel Lyrics Site?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Apr 03 - 04:56 PM

Thanks for all the additional help.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Best 19th Century Gospel Lyrics Site?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Apr 03 - 12:00 AM

Zillions, all styles, look around here:

PDMUSIC

~Susan

Subject: RE: Best 19th Century Gospel Lyrics Site?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Apr 03 - 11:33 PM

Q, I know I can count on you to list those you post in the permathread... do you know about changing the subject line of lyric add posts, to give the title of each song, so it shows up on search? And please, if a title you have is already indexed as posted, in the permathread, LIST it in your new Harris thread but POST the lyric in an existing one on the same title... am I making any sense?

Say, whyncha join up around her so we can PM about speerchuls?

~Susan

Subject: RE: Best 19th Century Gospel Lyrics Site?
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 28 Apr 03 - 11:05 PM

Yes, supplemented by a late reprint that I have.

Subject: RE: Best 19th Century Gospel Lyrics Site?
From: masato sakurai
Date: 28 Apr 03 - 10:48 PM

GUEST,Q, is THIS EDITION of Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris (at Project Gutenberg) not the one?

~Masato

Subject: RE: Best 19th Century Gospel Lyrics Site?
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 28 Apr 03 - 10:11 PM

We are thankful for a few songs of the Blacks from the period immediately following (and partly back into) the slavery period that are found in the writings of Joel Chandler Harris. These songs, from the 1881 edition of "Uncle Remus, Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation."
Later editions, even the first English edition of 1883, lacked much of the information of the first edition, and concentrated on the animal tales. The scholarship with which Harris treated his subjest was lost.
A couple of these songs lead into the Black gospel period from the old spirituals. This was a progression, probably seamless at the time.

I will post these in a new thread, called Harris, Plantation Songs. Harris very carefully reproduced the sounds of the language of that time. In singing the songs, he emphasizes that the songs depend for their melody and rhythm upon the musical quality of time, and not upon long or short, accented or unaccented syllables.

Subject: RE: Best 19th Century Gospel Lyrics Site?
From: Burke
Date: 28 Apr 03 - 06:07 PM

When I hear 19th Century Gospel, I think Sankey, Bliss, Lowry & lots of other mostly white folks. For 19th century Black Gospel/Revival/Spiritual there are several threads devoted to the topic. Put Spiritual in the Mudcat filter box & refresh. You'll find the Permathread

Subject: RE: Best 19th Century Gospel Lyrics Site?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Apr 03 - 05:58 PM

Thanks, Masato, for sharing the sites you are familar with. I have no problem with minstrel songs, bawdy songs, blues, or the usual "folk songs" but 19th century Black Gospel/Revival/Spiritual wasn't really coming up solid.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Best 19th Century Gospel Lyrics Site?
From: masato sakurai
Date: 28 Apr 03 - 09:27 AM

I'd like to know such a site, too. A lot of gospel hymns are contained in THE CYBER HYMNAL, and there's an index of Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos (pdf. file). The thread Online Hymnals may help.

~Masato

Subject: Best 19th Century Gospel Lyrics Site?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Apr 03 - 08:07 AM

I'm wondering if there is a best website for lyrics and/or tunes for 19th century gospel songs? I'm not particularly interested in the sites that feature recording artists, MP3's, or offers to save my soul.

This is definitely a serious music question, dear Joe Clones, so please don't send it down below!

Charley Noble