Books about Christian music and musicians

Book Title Author(s) World Cat Ref. ISBN Published Our holdings Librarian's memo
The hymns and hymn writers of the church: an annotated edition of the Methodist hymnal Methodist Episcopal Church; Wilbur Fisk Tillet (1854-1936); Charles Sumner Nutter (184201928) 1915 https://archive.org/details/22256124.1241.emory.edu Worldcat has no reference for this edition (1915) but does have two earlier editions, 1911 and 1891.
The Voice of Christian Life in Song: Or, Hymns and Hymn-writers of Many Lands and Ages Elizabeth Rundle Charles http://www.worldcat.org/title/voice-of-christian-life-in-song-or-hymns-and-hymn-writers-of-many-lands-and-ages-by-the-author-of-tales-and-sketches-of-christian-life-ie-elizabeth-charles/oclc/558961811 1865 https://archive.org/details/voicechristianl03chargoog
Singers and songs of the Church, sketches of the hymn-writers Josiah Miller http://www.worldcat.org/title/singers-and-songs-of-the-church-being-biographical-sketches-of-the-hymn-writers-in-all-the-principal-collections-with-notes-on-their-psalms-and-hymns/oclc/85890412 1869 https://archive.org/details/singersandsongs01millgoog
The singers and their songs: sketches of living Gospel hymn writers Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (1856-1932) http://www.worldcat.org/title/singers-and-their-songs-sketches-of-living-gospel-hymn-writers/oclc/4282849 1916 https://archive.org/details/singerstheirsong00gabr Fanny Crosby; Eben E. Rexford; Jessie Brown Pounds Lewis Hartsough Eliza Edmunds Hewitt Christopher R. Blackall many others
Schwenkfelder hymnology: and the sources of the first Schwenkfelder hymn-book printed in America Allen Anders Seipt http://www.worldcat.org/title/schwenkfelder-hymnology-and-the-sources-of-the-first-schwenkfelder-hymn-book-printed-in-america/oclc/285513 1909 https://archive.org/details/schwenkfelderhym00seip Probably republished around 1971 according to the Worldcat record. Introduction.--Descriptive bibliography (p. 17-36)--The Schwenkfelder hymn-writers of the 16th and 17th centuries.--Hymns used by the Schwenkfelders before 1762.--Caspar Weiss: the originator of the Schwenkfelder hymn-book.--George Weiss: writer and compiler of hymns.--Balthaser Hoffmann, Christopher Hoffmann, and Hans Christoph Huebner.--Christopher Schultz and the printed hymn-book.--Bibliography (p. 111-112)
The poets of the church: a series of biographical sketches of hymn-writers with notes on their hymns Edwin Francis Hatfield (1807-1883) http://www.worldcat.org/title/poets-of-the-church-a-series-of-biographical-sketches-of-hymn-writers-with-notes-on-their-hymns/oclc/2723067 1884 https://archive.org/details/poetsofchurchser00hatf
A Treasure of hymns: brief biographies of one hundred and twenty leading hymn-writers with their best hymns Amos Russell Wells (1862-1933) http://www.worldcat.org/title/treasure-of-hymns-brief-biographies-of-one-hundred-and-twenty-leading-hymn-writers-with-their-best-hymns/oclc/131403 1914 https://archive.org/details/treasurehy00well All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name|Edward Perronet A Mighty Fortress Is Our God|Martin Luther Calm on the Listening Ear of Nigh|Edmund Hamilton Sears O Little Town of Bethlehem|Bishop Brooks From Greenland's Icy Mountains|Bishop Heber Speed Away|Fanny Crosby How Firm a Foundation|Probably by Robert Keene My Country'Tis of Thee|Samuel Francis Smith God Bless Our Native Land|Charles TBrooks and John SDwight JesusLover of My Soul|Charles Wesley Nearer My Godto Thee|Sarah Flower Adams Just as I Am|Charlotte Elliott Rock of Ages|Augustus M. Toplady Take My Life|Frances Ridley Havergal My Faith Looks Up to Thee|Ray Palmer In the Cross of Christ I Glory|Sir John Bowring Sun of My Soul|John Keble Am I a Soldier of the Cross|Isaac Watts Stand UpStand Up for Jesus|George Duffield Onward Christian Soldiers|Sabine Baring-Gould Awake My Soul|Bishop Thomas Ken Abide with Me|Henry Francis Lyte God Be with You Till We Meet Again|J.E. Rankin O Day of Rest and Gladness|Bishop Wordsworth In This Consecration Hour|Howard Benjamin Grose Blest Be the Tie That Binds|John Fawcett If You Cannot on the Ocean|Ellen M. Huntington Gates Art Thou Weary Art Thou Languid|John Mason Neale Courage Brother! Do Not Stumble|Norman Macleod Two Empires by the Sea|George Huntington Summer Suns Are Glowing|William Walsham How Behold! A Stranger at the Door|Joseph Grigg Bright Was the Guiding Star That Led|Harriet Auber Father Let Me Dedicate|Lawrence Tuttiett Oh, Could I Speak the Matchless Worth|Samuel Medley Crown Him with Many Crowns|Matthew Bridges O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go|George Matheson Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee|Bernard of Clairvaux Majestic Sweetness Sits Enthroned|Samuel Stennett The Battle Hymn of the Republic|Julia Ward Howe For the Beauty of the Earth|Folliott Sandford Pierpoint Onward Christian Though the Region|Samuel Johnson Golden Day So Long Desired|Charles Albert Dickinson In the Field with Their Flocks|Frederic William Farrar RiseMy Souland Stretch Thy Wings|Robert Seagrave Sweet Hour of Prayer|William W. Walford The Day of Resurrection|St. John of Damascus While Thee I SeekProtecting Power|Helen Maria Williams I Love Thy Kingdom Lord|Timothy Dwight Hail! Columbia|Joseph Hopkinson The Sands of Time Are Sinking|Annie Ross Cousin There Are Lonely Hearts to Cherish|George Cooper What Shall the Harvest Be|Emily Sullivan Oakey The God of Abraham Praise|Thomas Olivers There's a Song in the Air|Josiah Gilbert Holland When Morning Gilds the Skies|Edward Caswall Somebody Did a Golden Deed|John RClements O God the Rock of Ages|Edward Henry Bicker steth LordIt Belongs Not to My CareRichard Baxter Lord How Full of Sweet Content|Madame Guyon Cast Thy Burden on the Lord|Rowland Hill The Breaking Waves Dashed High|Felicia Dorothea Hemans There Is a Happy Land |Andrew Young I Am So Glad That Our Father in Heaven|P.P. Bliss When He Cometh |William Orcutt Cushing Day by Day the Manna Fell|Josiah Conder Shout the Glad Tidings|William Augustus Muhlenberg JesusSaviourPilot Me|Edward Hopper Let Us with a Gladsome Mind|John Milton We Give Thee Thanks O God This Day|Robert M. Offord Break Thou the Bread of Life|Mary Artemisia Lathbury StillStill with Thee|Harriet Beecher Stozve Come Ye Thankful People Come|Henry Alford Softly Now the Light of Day|George Washington Doane Lord! While for All Mankind We Pray|John Reynell Wreford ComeYe Disconsolate|Thomas Moore Oh Worship the King All-glorious Above|Robert Grant We Thank TheeLordfor This Fair Earth |George Edward Lynch Cotton Once in Royal David's City|Cecil Frances Alexander While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night|Nahum Tate Great God! We Sing Thy Mighty Hand|Philip Doddridge Father, I Know That All My Life|Anna Laetitia Waring O, Where Are Kings and Empires Now|Arthur Cleveland Coxe Come, Said Jesus' Sacred Voice|Anna Laetitia Barbauld That Sweet Story of Old|Jemima Luke The Star-Spangled Banner|Francis Scott Key Lord of All Being Throned Afar|Oliver Wendell Holmes
Half-Hours With The Methodist Hymn-book Mary Champness http://www.worldcat.org/title/half-hours-with-the-methodist-hymn-book/oclc/3449962 1905 https://archive.org/details/halfhourswiththe00chamuoft
This Side of Heaven Ira F. Stanphill; Earl Green www.worldcat.org/title/this-side-of-heaven/oclc/10587994 1983 Stanphill's autobiography
Gospel Hymns and Social Religion: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century REvivalism Sandra S. Sizer http://www.worldcat.org/title/gospel-hymns-and-social-religion-the-rhetoric-of-nineteenth-century-revivalism/oclc/483242233 0877221411 1978 May be available in S.A. @ UTSA, Oblate School of Theology