Alonzo Judson Abbey

Alonzo Judson Abbey (also: AJ Abbey; born March 1, 1825 in Olive Township, Ulster County , New York , United States ; † March 24, 1887 in Chester, Morris County , New Jersey , United States) was an American musician , Music teacher, composer and music publisher.

Life

Alonzo Judson Abbey's parents were David and Nancy Abbey. He had a brother, Horatio Gates Abbey (1818–1879), who also wrote song texts. AJ Abbey taught music for a number of years. He taught singing classes in Sunday schools such as 1873 in Carbondale, Pennsylvania. He also worked as a music publisher. He wrote texts and melodies for hymns.

On February 23, 1848 he married Margaret Rutledge, born on May 13, 1829. Their child Frances C. Abbey was born on July 16, 1850, and Flora J. Abbey on September 22, 1855. On December 14, 1862, he married Mary Elizabeth Topping, born on September 2, 1838. With her he had six children, George Topping Abbey, Mary Farnham Abbey, William Bradbury Abbey, Jarties Edward Abbey, Ida Haines Abbey and Charles Evert Abbey. He died on May 24, 1887 in Chester, where he was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery .

Works (selection)

Song collections and hymn books

• White Robes for the Sunday School , an entirely new collection of choice music: songs, quartets, and choruses for Sunday schools, devotional meetings, and the home circle [a completely new collection of music: Lieder Quartet and Choirs for Sunday Schools, Devotional Meetings, and the Home Circle], edited with Merritt J. Munger, published by Oliver Ditson & Company, Boston, 1879 OCLC 33190120
  • A beautiful home . Text: KM Topping
  • A savior for me
  • Beautiful haven, far over the sea . Text: Ida S. Taylor
  • Behold the lamb od God. Text: Eden Reeder Latta (1839–1915)
  • Cast your burden on the Lord
  • Children do all that you can ,
  • Clinging close to Jesus hand . Text: EE Rexford
  • Come to Jesus now .
  • Do not wait . Text: AB Emmons
  • Drink of the streamlet . Incipit: Touch not the wine cup . Text: Fanny Crosby
  • Ere the sun goes down. Incipit: I have work enough to do . Text: Josephine Pollard
  • Greeting song. Incipit: A week again has passed away
  • Guard the bible well . Text: T. McDougall
  • Happy home
  • Happy New Year. Incipit: Ring the bells merrily . Text: AB Dickerson
  • He is risen, text: Eden Reeder Latta
  • Here Again , text: AB Emmons
  • Mother watch the little feet
  • My home. Incipit: I'm but a stranger here
  • Leaving us behind . Text: Eden Reeder Latta
  • Now i lay me down to sleep
  • Only little while . Text: EE Rexford
  • Precious love . Incipit: If we feel the love of Jesus. Text: Fanny Cresby (1820–1915)
  • Redemption is the song . Incipit: Unto me and not to angels . Text: Eden Reeder Latta
  • Seek the Savior , Text: MA Stockton
  • Sing, Sing for the Savior. Text: MA Barnard
  • Speed ​​the Gospel On , Incipit: See the heathen o'er the sea ^: Text: Eden Reeder Latta
  • Take these lambs , text: Dr. Thos. Hastings
  • Tenderly lead them on , text: Eden Reeder Latta
  • The coming of the spring
  • The song of heaven . Incipit: There is a song I love to sing. Text: EE Rexford
  • The family bible. Incipit: How painfully Text: Martin Dakin
  • The Merry Christmas Bells
  • The narrow way Incipit: The way to heaven is narrow
  • The Youthful Cristian, text: E. A Barnes
  • We are drawing nearer. Text: Eden Reeder Latta
  • We shall cross the river. Text: Eden Reeder Latta
  • We shall here the master calling. Text: Eden Reeder Latta
  • What a meeting that will be. Text: Eden Reeder Latta
  • When we get home. Text: EE Rexford
  • White Robes, text: Eden Reeder Latta
  • Working for Jesus. Text: Eden Reeder Latta
• The Banner of Victory, with Merritt J. Munger, published by Oliver Ditson & Company, Boston, 1881 OCLC 497020118
  • Christmas bells , text: Anzentia Igene Perry Chapman (1849–1889)
  • Christmas Carol. Incipit: On a Christmas morning bright
  • Oh, city of the angels! Text: Eben Eugene Rexford (1848–1916)

• Green Pastures for the Lambs , with Merritt J. Munger, published in S. Brainard's Sons, Cleveland, Ohio, 1886
  • The birthday of our king . Text: Harriet F. Jones (1823–1915)
  • Green Pastures , text: Eden Reeder Latta
  • Merry Christmas Bells , text: Eden Reeder Latta
  • Our risen savior , text: Eden Reeder Latta
  • Work While the Day Lasts , text: Eden Reeder Latta

• Children's diadem , with Merritt J. Munger, published by Oliver Ditson & Company, Boston, 1887

Songs

• Bright glory to come , 1884 Text: Eden Reeder Latta
• Cooling . Incipit: When languor and disease invade
• Give me thine heart , text: Eden Reeder Latta, 1887
• He Will Lead Me Home , Text: AB Emmons
• I worship Thee, O Holy Ghost, 1858 Text: William F. Warren (1833–1929)
• Nothing but leaves, in: Alleluia: a collection of hymns and tunes for the church school, and the mid-week meeting by Melancthon Woolsey Stryker (1851–1929), Biglow & Main, New York, 1880
• The Old Farmer's Grave , Song & Quartette , published by AJ Abbey, Elmira , 1854
• The harvest is white , 1874 Text: Horatio G. Abbey
• We Shall Reap By and By , Text: Fanny Cresby

Cooling

As a cooling , a melody composed by Alonzo Judson Abbey in 1868 is common in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was underlaid with many different texts and so included in many hymnbooks in different versions. Abbey was also known as the composer of Cooling and was also referred to in Modern music and musicians for vocalists: ... including the world's one hundred greatest songs by Louis Charles Elson (1848–1920).

• O Thou Great Teacher of the Skies , text: Thomas Cogwell Upham (1799–1872). published in Carmina for the Sunday school and social worship, comp. and ed. by Lewis W. Mudge and Herbert B. Turner. , Barnes, New York, 1894

• When languor and disease invade , text: Augustus Montague Toplady , published in Carmina sanctorum: a selection of hymns and songs of praise: with tunes / edited by Roswell Dwight Hitchcock, Zachary Eddy, Lewis Ward Mudge , Barnes, New York, 1885 Published in Many voices: or, Carmina sanctorum, evangelistic edition with tunes by T. Talmage and Tomas De Witt, AS Barnes, New York

Song lyrics

• Be Kind to Thy Father

• The Better Years Begin
• Come to Jesus Now
• Come to the Savior, Children, Today
• Far away
• Jesus is calling
• The Merry Christmas Bells
• There Is an Earnest Voice

Works for piano

• The Elmira , Scottish . Published by Firth, Pond & Company, New York, 1856

Web links

• Alonzo Judson Abbey at Find a Grave
• Alonzo Judson Abbey at http://www.hymntime.com
• Sheet music and audio files from Alonzo Judson Abbey in the International Music Score Library Project

Digital copies

1. ^ Nothing but leaves as a digitized version in the Internet Archive
2. ^ The Old Farmer's Grave as a digitized version in the Library of Congress
3. ↑ Cooling as a digitized version at HathiTrust
4. ^ O Thou Great Teacher of the Skies as a digitized version at HathiTrust
5. ↑ When languor and disease invade as digitized at HathiTrust
6. ↑ When languor and disease invade as digitized at Internet Archive
7. ^ The Elmira as a digitized version in the Library of Congress

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robert Guy McCutchan; Fitzgerald Sale Parker (Ed.): Our Hymnody: A Manual of the Methodist Hymnal . Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1937, pp. 223 ( google.de [accessed on May 5, 2018]).
2. ^ Juvenile Singing School . In: Carbondale Advance . Carbondale, Pennsylvania August 16, 1873, p. 3 (English, newspapers.com ).
3. ↑ Philip Philipps; Philip Philipps Jr. (Ed.): Our new hymnal . Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York / London / Toronto 1894, p. 72 (English, archive.org [accessed May 5, 2018]).
4. ↑ MWStryker; Hubert P. Main (Ed.): Alleluia: a collection of hymns and tunes for the church school, and the mid-week meeting / . Biglow & Main, New York 1880, p. 54 (English, archive.org [accessed on May 5, 2018]).
5. ↑ Louis Charles Elson: Modern music and musicians for vocalists: ... including the world's one hundred greatest songs . The University Society, New York 1918, pp. 252 (English, handle.net ).