William H. Doane

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William Howard Doane (born February 3, 1832 in Preston , Connecticut , † December 23, 1915 in South Orange , New Jersey ) was an American industrialist and composer of revival songs .

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William Howard Doane was a well-known composer of revival songs . Among other things, he composed the melodies for the following hymns :

  • Pass me not, O gentle savior (1870, text by Fanny Crosby , German by C. Ott as Gehe nicht über, o Heiland )
  • Take the Name of Jesus with You (1899, text 1871 by Lydia Baxter , German 1875 by Ernst Heinrich Gebhardt as O, how sweet Jesus' name sounds! )
  • Jesus, keep me near the cross (text by Fanny Crosby)
  • Safe in the Arms of Jesus (text by Fanny Crosby, German by Ernst Heinrich Gebhardt as O in the arms of Jesus )
  • To God be the glory (text by Fanny Crosby , German by Lotte Sauer as O God, be your honor )
  • Brothers, on to the work
  • Come home, come home
  • Let our praise rise
  • Sin would be blood red

Doane's songs show typical features of the revival song :

They are usually in a straight beat (music) without a prelude . In rhythm dominate dotted notes; Sometimes a rhythmically very stereotypical picture emerges: constant patterns of a few note values ​​are repeated over long stretches of the song ( brothers, on to the work ).

Doane's melodies are composed of short phrases together, usually in analogue formed antecedent - consequent pairs ( Hin and again back ). The melodic ambitus is usually small. Tone repetitions and tone steps in major or in the pentatonic space are common, jumping movements in the melodies sometimes seem unmotivated.

Most of Doane's songs have a refrain. There are regularly long recumbent tones in the melody ( O how sweet does Jesus' name sound ), which allow independent, rhythmically motivated phrases in the accompanying voices ( O how sweet - (how sweet) - it sounds - (it sounds) - when my heart of Jesus sings ).

William Howard Doane published numerous Baptist songbooks .

Autograph collection

Around 1890 Doane acquired numerous manuscripts in Europe from important composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven . His daughter, Marguerite Treat Doane, bequeathed this collection to the Palmer Theological Seminary in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania in 1950 , where it was forgotten. After two Mozart autographs from this collection were found and auctioned in 1990 , the handwritten manuscript of Beethoven's Great Fugue (1824, op.133, for piano four hands; originally the finale of the string quartet op . 130). It is to be auctioned in London in December 2005.

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SURNAME Doane, William H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doane, William Howard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American industrialist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Preston , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1915
Place of death South Orange , New Jersey