Composition: Carmina Sacra (Mason, Lowell)

Title Carmina Sacra
Alternative title Carmina Sacra: or Boston Collection of Church Music, comprising the most popular psalm and hymn tunes in general use, together with a great variety of new tunes, chants, sentences, motetts, and anthems, principally by distinguished European composers: the whole constituting one of the most complete collections of music for choirs, congregations, singing schools and societies, extant.
Creators Lowell Mason (composer)
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Instrumentation mixed chorus
mixed chorus and organ
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First published 1840
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Composition types Psalms, Hymns, Chants, Motets, Sacred choruses, Anthems
Language English
Period Romantic
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Details Section Type Publisher Date File
view Complete J. H. Wilkins & R. B. Carter 1841 Complete Score (2nd ed. 1841) · view
Complete Score (2nd ed. 1843) · view
Complete Score (2nd ed. 1843) · view
Complete Score (1844) · view
view Complete Wilkins 1845 Complete Score (1845) · view
Complete Score (1847) · view
Complete Score (1848) · view

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