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What Are Shape Notes?

What Are Shape Notes?

Melody Publications announces the arrival of the Shape Note edition of Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs. This edition offers your favorite selections in this heritage notation loved by generations.

What Are Shape Notes?

Melody Publications announces the arrival of the Shape Note edition of Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs. This edition offers your favorite selections in this heritage notation loved by generations.

Hymn Story: Rock of Ages

Hymn Story: Rock of Ages

How often does the weary soul toil on through the burden of the day without stopping to consider Him? Fellowship with He who ought to be our refuge, our joy,...

Hymn Story: Rock of Ages

How often does the weary soul toil on through the burden of the day without stopping to consider Him? Fellowship with He who ought to be our refuge, our joy,...

It Is Well With My Soul- Horatio Spafford and Phillip P. Bliss

It Is Well With My Soul- Horatio Spafford and P...

From the archives at Melody Publications, we bring the history of the beloved hymn "It Is Well." This history and hundreds of others are found in the "Psalms and Hymns...

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It Is Well With My Soul- Horatio Spafford and P...

From the archives at Melody Publications, we bring the history of the beloved hymn "It Is Well." This history and hundreds of others are found in the "Psalms and Hymns...

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Hymn Story: Singing A Man to Christ

Hymn Story: Singing A Man to Christ

‘I’ll tell you what, I heard singin’ tonight that made me wish I was in heaven, or good enough to go there,” said an old backwoodsman to his wife, as,...

Hymn Story: Singing A Man to Christ

‘I’ll tell you what, I heard singin’ tonight that made me wish I was in heaven, or good enough to go there,” said an old backwoodsman to his wife, as,...

Anne Steele

Anne Steele

“A name that will linger long in the memory of those who love to sing the songs of Zion, is that of Anne Steele. She was born in 1716, and...

Anne Steele

“A name that will linger long in the memory of those who love to sing the songs of Zion, is that of Anne Steele. She was born in 1716, and...

The Birth of a National Hymn– My Country ‘Tis of Thee

The Birth of a National Hymn– My Country ‘Tis o...

… Samuel F. Smith D.D. (1808-1895), an eminent New England Baptist minister, is the author of this and some thirty other hymns. In answer to some inquiries concerning the composition...

The Birth of a National Hymn– My Country ‘Tis o...

… Samuel F. Smith D.D. (1808-1895), an eminent New England Baptist minister, is the author of this and some thirty other hymns. In answer to some inquiries concerning the composition...