William Moore

Life

Born: abt. 1790

Died:

Biography William Moore was a composer and tunebook compiler. He was living in Wilson County, Tennessee, in 1825, when he compiled Columbian Harmony. He contributed tunes to Wyeth's Repository in 1810, and is cited as composer or arranger of several tunes in William Walker's Southern Harmony, 1835.

List of choral works

A. LISTED BY TITLE

1. Compositions of William Moore

Bethlehem The Converted Thief Holy Manna

Jackson Lebanon Salem

Sweet Rivers Wesley

2. Arrangements by William Moore

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B. LISTED BY FIRST LINE

All glory to God in the sky As on the cross the Savior hung

Drooping souls, no longer grieve How sweet the name of Jesus sounds

With inward pain my heart-strings sound

 
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Publications

• Moore, William. 1825. Columbian harmony: or a choice collection of psalm tunes, hymns, and anthems … selected from the most eminent authors in America. Cincinnati, Ohio: Morgan, Lodge, and Fisher. 200 pp.

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