[ Ref. Mark Singleton in 191014 MMDigest ]

In the October 14, 2019 edition of MMD, Mark Singleton asked for
help in identifying a series of tunes on a cylinder music box,
a recording of which is on YouTube at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHPRNV1je2w 

There are eight different tunes, all to evangelical hymns that were
popular in the U.S.A. in the late nineteenth century, and I was able
to identify seven of them.  Mark requested that any information about
the tunes also be posted as comments on YouTube, but I had trouble
making the posting and am accordingly submitting the information to
Mark and the lady who owns the music box through the MMD instead.

1. The first tune, which runs from time 0:00 to 0:26 in the You Tube
recording, is "Jesus of Nazareth Passeth By", with words by Emma
Campbell and music by Theodore E. Perkins.  Like most of the other
hymns in the group, it was included (as #9) in the voluminous 1894
hymnal "Gospel Hymns Nos. 1 to 6 Complete" ("GH"), compiled by
Ira D. Sankey, James McGranahan and George C. Stebbins, which has
been digitized in its entirety on the Hathitrust.org website, where,
accordingly, both the music and lyrics can be viewed at no charge.

2. The second tune, which runs from 0:28 to 0:55 in the recording, is
the hymn tune "Hollingside", by the great English hymn tune composer
John B. Dykes.  It has been used for the hymns "Jesus, Lover of my Soul"
and "Take my Life and Let it Be", but is not the tune primarily used
for either of these hymns.

3. The third tune, which runs from 0:57 to 1:23 in the recording,
is "Hold the Fort", with both words and music by the great American
hymn writer Philip P. Bliss.  It appears as #11 in GH.

4. The fourth tune, which runs from 1:26 to 1:52, is the one I have
been unable to identify.  I am familiar with a number of evangelical
hymn tunes of the same era with the same meter (10.10.12.10 or
6.4.6.4.6.6.6.4), but, even allowing for slight variations in
arrangements, this tune does not appear to be one of them.

5. The fifth tune, which runs from 1:54 to 2:22, is an older melody
that accompanied a German version of the ancient Latin hymn "Te Deum
Laudamus" in the Katholisches Gesangbuch ("Catholic Songbook"),
published in Vienna in about 1774.  The tune was subsequently chosen
by nineteenth-century Anglican cleric John Keble to accompany his hymn
"Sun of my Soul, Thou Saviour Dear" (#674 in GH) and was named by him
"Hursley" after the village in Hampshire, England, where he served as
pastor for many years.  The tune is also used with the words "Holy God,
We Praise Thy Name", an English-language version of the "Te Deum" that
corresponds to the German-language version noted by Jochen Kopf in his
comment on YouTube.

6. The sixth tune, which runs from 2:24 to 2:54, is "Tell Me the Old,
Old Story", #28 in GH, with lyrics by Kate Hankey, a well-to-do London
resident with an interest in evangelism, and music by the very prolific
American hymn tune composer William H. Doane.

7. The seventh tune, which runs from 2:55 to 3:26, is "The Gate Ajar for
Me", #12 in GH, with lyrics by Lydia Baxter, who lived for many years in
New York City and, although a bed-ridden invalid, was actively involved
in evangelistic work, and music by Silas Jones Vail, also a New York
resident, a hatter by trade who also composed hymn tunes.

8. The eighth tune, which runs from 3:28 to 4:00, is the very well-known
"The Sweet By-and-By", #110 in GH, with words by S. Fillmore Bennett and
music by Joseph P. Webster.  Bennett was a pharmacist who later became
a medical doctor and Webster was a music teacher and both lived in
Elkhorn, Wisconsin.  The hymn dates from 1868 and reportedly took only
thirty minutes to complete as Bennett and Webster worked on it in
Bennett's drugstore.

Following 4:00 on the YouTube recording, the first through seventh tunes 
are repeated again in the same order.

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