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2. Ebenezer (hymn tune) - Wikipedia

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   The tune was first published in 1897 in the periodical Yr Athraw ('The Teacher'), vol. 71, in tonic sol-fa notation, and its first appearance in a hymnal was in 1900, in The Baptist Book of Praise. The famed English composer and music historian Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) referred to this as one of the greatest hymn tunes.

3. Tonic sol-fa - Wikipedia

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   Tonic sol-fa (or tonic sol-fah) is a pedagogical technique for teaching sight-singing, invented by Sarah Anna Glover (1786–1867) of Norwich, England and popularised by John Curwen, who adapted it from a number of earlier musical systems.

4. John Curwen - Wikipedia

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   Portrait of John Curwen by William Gush, circa 1857. John Curwen (14 November 1816 – 26 May 1880) was an English Congregationalist minister and diffuser of the tonic sol-fa system of music education created by Sarah Ann Glover.

5. Tonic Sol-fa (a cappella group) - Wikipedia

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   Tonic Sol-fa is an a cappella quartet from the Minneapolis–Saint Paul region. With a largely pop-music -oriented repertoire, their CDs have sold over 2,000,000 copies, [ 1 ] and the group has toured throughout the US and abroad.

6. Tonic (music) - Wikipedia

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   In music, the tonic is the first scale degree of the diatonic scale (the first note of a scale) and the tonal center or final resolution tone [1] that is commonly used in the final cadence in tonal (musical key-based) classical music, popular music, and traditional music. In the movable do solfège system, the tonic note is sung as do.

7. Joseph Parry - Wikipedia

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   Beginning in 1861, he was a regular contributor of Tonic sol-fa material to the Welsh music journal, Y cerddor Cymreig. [82] Parry's work with making Tonic sol-fa accessible allowed everyone with an interest in choral work to participate. [83] He edited Cambrian Minstrelsie (A National Collection of Welsh Songs) in 1893. [84]

8. When I Survey the Wondrous Cross - Wikipedia

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   The hymn "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" was written by Isaac Watts, and published in Hymns and Spiritual Songs in 1707. It is significant for being an innovative departure from the early English hymn style of only using paraphrased biblical texts, although the first couplet of the second verse paraphrases Galatians 6:14a and the second couplet of the fourth verse paraphrases Gal. 6:14b.

9. Jesus Paid It All - Wikipedia

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   The song lyrics were written in 1865 by Elvina M. Hall, a 45-year-old widowed congregant. [2] One Sunday morning, with an extremely long pastoral prayer, and a continuous sermon , Mrs. Hall's thoughts began to wander while sitting in a choir loft at the Monument Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland .