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Amazing Grace is a musical with music and lyrics by Christopher Smith and a book by Smith and Arthur Giron. [1] The musical is Smith's first foray as a professional writer or composer. [2] [3] It is based loosely on the life of John Newton, an English slave trader who later became an Anglican priest and eventually an abolitionist.
Amazing Grace: Music Inspired By the Motion Picture is a soundtrack for the movie Amazing Grace starring Ioan Gruffudd.The album features new versions of old hymns recorded by some of Christian music's more prominent artists as well as one of the most popular country artists around today.
The lyrics of John Newton's Amazing Grace are credited to Staunton Burdett's Baptist Harmony (1834). C. M. is common metre. New Britain is a hymn tune which was first published under other names in the early 19th century, including St Mary's, Gallaher, Symphony, Harmony Grove and Solon.
An 1847 publication of Southern Harmony, showing the title "New Britain" ("Amazing Grace") and shape note music. Play ⓘ. The roots of Southern Harmony singing, like the Sacred Harp, are found in the American colonial era, when singing schools convened to provide instruction in choral singing, especially for use in church services.
Music of Grace: Amazing Grace at AllMusic. Retrieved 18:56, 2 May 2021 (UTC). Retrieved 18:56, 2 May 2021 (UTC). This Christian music album-related article is a stub .
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...
It is one of the earliest known print sources of the tune for "Amazing Grace", given in The Virginia Harmony as "Harmony Grove" and used as a setting for the Isaac Watts hymn "There Is a Land of Pure Delight". [1] The "Amazing Grace" text was not set to this melody until the 1847 Southern Harmony, where the tune was called "New Britain".
Kevin Olusola – vocal percussion, tenor backing vocals, lead vocals on “12 Days of Christmas” and “Amazing Grace”, cello on "Thank You", vocal flugelhorn on "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" Others. Ben Bram – producer, recording engineer; Mick Wordley – producer; Voctave – choir on "Once Upon a December"