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Sacred songs

Here are entered works for solo voice with sacred texts. Works with secular texts are entered under the heading Songs. This heading is also qualified as appropriate by voice range and specification of accompaniment, e.g. Sacred songs (High voice) with piano; Sacred songs with string orchestra; Sacred songs, Unaccompanied.

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• Sacred vocal music
• Songs

• Sacred songs -- Bibliography
• Sacred songs -- History and criticism
• Sacred songs -- Instrumental settings
• Sacred songs -- Juvenile
• Sacred songs -- Portugal
• Sacred songs -- Spain
• Sacred songs -- Texts
• Sacred songs -- United States
• Gospel music
• Hymns
• Sacred songs, Dutch
• Sacred songs, English
• Sacred songs, German
• Sacred songs, Irish
• Sacred songs, Unaccompanied
• Solo cantatas, Sacred

• Arias, Sacred
• Art songs, Sacred
• Sacred arias
• Sacred solo songs
• Solo songs, Sacred
• Songs, Sacred

• Geistliche Lieder (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1911), by Heinrich Elmenhorst, Wilhelm Krabbe, Josef Kromolicki, Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss, Georg Böhm, and Johann Wolfgang Franck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lenteleven : Godsdienstige liederen (Deventer boek- en steendrukkerij], 1891), by Nederlandsche Protestantenbond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The notebooks of Anna Magdelena Bach. from the years 1722 and 1725 (E.F. Kalmus, 1900), by Johann Sebastian Bach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The pearl : a collection of songs, hymns, chants, anthems, and concert pieces for the Sabbath school (S. Brainard, 1871), by J. M. Kieffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The silver song : a choice collection of new Sabbath school music (W. W. Whitney, 1870), by W. A. Ogden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shaker music : original inspirational hymns and songs illustrative of the resurrection life and testimony of the Shakers. (Published for the North family, Mt. Lebanon, N.Y., by William A. Pond & Co., 25 Union Square, 1884), by Elizabeth Belden, Martha J. Anderson, Daniel Offord, and Wm. A. Pond & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evangel of song (W. Briggs, 1889), by J. H. Hathaway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacred songs (Copp, Clark, 1896), by Geo. C. Stebbins, Ira D. Sankey, and James McGranahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacred songs (Copp, Clark, 1899), by Geo. C. Stebbins, Ira D. Sankey, and James McGranahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Band music (W. Briggs;, 1886), by David Savage and J. H. Hathaway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chants évangéliques pour le culte public et l'édification particuliè re avec musique à quatre parties. (H. et M. White;, 1891) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chants évangéliques pour le culte public et l'édification particuliè re avec musique à quatre parties. (Chez l'auteur, au Bureau de l'Aurore, 1875) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les cantiques des cantiques (s.n.], 1886), by S. Laporte (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of hymns and sacred songs adapted for conference and protracted meetings and revivals of religion. (s.n.], 1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kaiatonserase tsionk8e, hetsise8anenton ne Ra8enniio. (Tehoristorarakon, J. Lovel, 1860), by James Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chants évangéliques pour le culte public et l'édification particuliè re à l'usage des églises du Canada avec musique à quatre parties. (s.n.], 1862), by Église catholique (page images at HathiTrust)
• One hundred sacred melodies (s.n.], 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chants évangéliques pour le culte public et l'édification particuliè re avec musique à quatre parties. (Société de publication des chants évangéliques, 1914), by Laurent Edouard Rivard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Songs. (G.Schirmer, 1889), by Arthur Whiting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wijse sproken Iesu des soons Syrach. (F. Muller, 1898), by Jan Fruytiers and Daniel François Scheurleer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil de cantiques chrétiens pour l'usage du culte public et particulier. (Impr. de C. Krebs-Schmitt, 1849), by Louis Bonnet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia posvätnej piesne slovenskej a historia kancionálu. (Tranoscius, 1909), by Jan Mocko (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beirly's sacred herald, issued annually in the month of April (A. Beirly, 1893), by Alfred Beirly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beirly's jubliee choir : a collection of easy and medium-grade sacred anthems for church choirs, consisting of solos, duetts, trios, quartetts and choruses, seventy-two in number, and of a great variety. (Alfred Beirly, 1891), by Alfred Beirly (page images at HathiTrust)
• New testament precepts for every day of the year : arranged alphabetically for every day of the year and illustrated by selections of sacred song (Frederick Warne & Co., 1869) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chto po︠iu︡t russkie sektanty; sbornik sektantskikh napevov s tekstom slov. (Izd. P. I︠u︡rgensana, 1910), by A. K. Chertkova (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The thanksgiving : a collection of music for the choir, the home circle, and the singing school (F. J. Huntington, 1857), by I. B. Woodbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grand Ave Maria (C. Bunce, 1865), by John M. Loretz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Where the roses ne'er shall wither : sacred song and chorus (New York : Chas.W. Harris, [1866], [not after 1871], 1866), by James G. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lo, the day of rest declineth : quartette (Boston : Oliver Ditson & Co., [not before 1867], 1867), by L. O. Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heart songs dear to the American people (Published by the Chapple Pub. Co. expressly for World Syndicate Co., New York City, 1909), by Robert M. Skirvin and Joe Mitchell Chapple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Golden grain. No. 1 (A. Beirly, 1896), by Alfred Beirly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joyful lays : a new collection of songs prepared and adapted for the Sunday school (Biglow & Main, 1884), by Robert Lowry and W. Howard Doane (page images at HathiTrust)
• The silver song : a choice collection of new Sabbath school music (W.W. Whitney, 1870), by W. A. Ogden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The signet ring: a new collection of music and hymns composed for Sabbath schools &c. (Lyon & Healy, 1868), by Joseph Philbrick Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suffer little children to come unto me. (Oliver Ditson Company, 1884), by H. D. Hewitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geistliche Oden und Lieder (Getruckt in Bürgklischer Truckerey, 1761), by Johannes Schmidlin and Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Harfe : Anthologie geistlicher Lieder zur Erbauung am häuslichen Herd für Pianoforte und Gesang. (Verlag von Ernst Schäfer, 1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christian heart-songs; a collection of solos, quartetts, and choruses, of all meters, together with a selection of chants and set pieces. (J.B. Ford and Co., 1870), by John Zundel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gospel hymns. No. 2 (Biglow & Main ;, 1876), by Maggie Emmory, Ira David Sankey, P. P. Bliss, John Church Company, and Biglow & Main (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gospel hymns and sacred songs. ([New York] : Published by Biglow & Main, 76 East Ninth Street, New York, 73 Randolph Street, Chicago. John Church & Co. 66 West Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Root & Son's Music Co., Chicago. May be ordered of booksellers and music dealers., [1876], 1876), by P. P. Bliss, Ira David Sankey, Root & Sons Music Co, John Church Company, and Biglow & Main (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gospel hymns no. 2. ([New York] : Published by Biglow & Main, 76 East Ninth Street, New York. 73 Randolph Street, Chicago. John Church & Co. 66 West Fourth Street, Cincinnati. Root & Son's Music Co., Chicago. May be ordered of booksellers and music dealers., [1876], 1876), by P. P. Bliss, Ira David Sankey, Root & Sons Music Co, John Church Company, and Biglow & Main (page images at HathiTrust)
• Good tidings : for Sunday-schools, prayer, praise, and gospel meetings (A.J. Showalter Co., 1884), by H. F. Smith, J. Henry Showalter, G. E. Leonard, Geo. B. Holsinger, J. B. Vaughan, A. J. Showalter, and A.J. Showalter Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Presbyterian psalmodist : a collection of tunes adapted to the psalms and hymns of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (Presbyterian Board of Publications, 1855), by J. B. Aikin, Thomas Hastings, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication, and Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Himnario de las iglesias evangelicas (Imprenta de la Iglesia Presbiteriana, Calle de S. Juan de Dios, núm. 4., 1878), by M. N. Hutchinson and Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Mexico Mission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gospel hymns. No. 4 (Biglow & Main ;, 1881), by Clara B. Taylor, George C. Stebbins, James McGranahan, Ira David Sankey, John Church Company, and Biglow & Main (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bible object lessons and songs for little ones : for the home and school, with illustrations and special instruction for mothers and teachers (Bible Kindergarten and Gospel Music House, 1892), by Lillie E. Affolter and F. E. Belden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The songs of the Old and New Testament in meeter by M. Zachary Boyd ... (Glasgow : Printed by the heires of George Anderson, 1648), by Zacharie Boyd (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Das deutsche Lied : geistlich und weltlich bis zum 18ten Jahrhundert. (M. Breslauer, 1908), by Inc Martin Breslauer and Martin Breslauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A guide to music in worship; a comprehensive, current index of sacred solos in print. (Channel Press, 1959), by Edgar J. Moore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Sankey's story of the gospel hymns and of sacred songs and solos (Sunday School Times Co. ;, 1906), by Ira D. Sankey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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