A Year of Hymn Stories: A Primer of Hymnology: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Year of Hymn Stories: A Primer of Hymnology, credited to Carl F. Price, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of A Year of Hymn Stories: A Primer of Hymnology by Carl F. Price. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers Carl F. Price, a pioneering hymnologist, historian, and author, presents 52 stories of hymns from the Methodist Sunday School Hymnal to introduce students to the great music of the church, The hymns range from those by familiar hymnologists such as Charles Wesley and Isaac Watts to lesser known writers such as Martin Rinkart, and Henry Kirke White.. These hymns roughly fallow the Methodist church year including Sundays for "Missionary," "Temperance," "Children's Day," etc, and the major holidays of the year. Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Year of Hymn Stories: A Primer of Hymnology
• Author credits: Carl F. Price
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 53
• Listed recording duration: 2:18:30

Catalogue topics

• church
• devotional
• essays
• music
• worship
• Methodism
• hymns
• praise

Opening tracks: first 24 of 53

1. 00 - Preface and Introduction — 6:54
2. 01 - First Sunday: New Year's “Another year is dawning!” Frances Ridley Havergal, 1836-1879 — 2:19
3. 02 - Second Sunday: Evangelistic “Just as I am, without one plea” Charlotte Elliott, 1789-1871 — 2:42
4. 03 - Third Sunday: Evangelistic ““Almost persuaded,’ now to believe’ Philip Bliss, 1838-1876 — 2:27
5. 04 - Fourth Sunday: Missionary “The whole world was lost in the darkness of sin” Philip Bliss, 1838-1876 — 2:35
6. 05 - Fifth Sunday: “Blest be the tie that binds” John Fawcett, 1739-1817 — 2:35
7. 06 - Sixth Sunday: “Be not dismayed whate’er betide, God will take care of you" C. D. Martin — 2:18
8. 07 - Seventh Sunday: Washington's Birthday “O beautiful for spacious skies” Katharine Lee Bates, 1859- — 2:22
9. 08 - Eighth Sunday: Missionay “Fling out the banner! let it float” George Washington Doane, 1799-1859 — 2:33
10. 09 - Ninth Sunday: “Glory be to the Father” — 2:34
11. 10 - Tenth Sunday: “I was a wandering sheep” Horatius Bonar, 1808-1889 — 2:22
12. 11 - Eleventh Sunday: “Jesus, Lover of my soul” Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 — 2:13
13. 12 - Twelth Sunday: “When I survey the wondrous cross” Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 — 2:20
14. 13 - Thirteenth Sunday: Palm Sunday “All glory, laud, and honor" Saint Theodulph, ? —821 — 2:14
15. 14 - Fourteenth Sunday: Easter Day “The day of resurrection” John of Damascus, ? -780 — 2:35
16. 15 - Fifteenth Sunday: “All hail the power of Jesus’ name!’ Edward Perronet, 1726-1792 — 2:26
17. 16 - Sixteenth Sunday: “Stand up, stand up for Jesus!” George Duffield, Jr., 1818-1888 — 2:31
18. 17 - Seventeenth Sunday: From Greenland’s icy mountains” Reginald Heber, 1783-1826 — 2:46
19. 18 - Eighteenth Sunday: “O Love that wilt not let me go” George Matheson, 1842-1906 — 2:43
20. 19 - Nineteenth Sunday: Mothers' Day “Now thank we all our God” Martin Rinkart, 1586-1649 — 2:29
21. 20 - Twentieth Sunday: Ascension “Golden harps are sounding” Frances Ridley Havergal, 1836-1879 — 2:40
22. 21 - Twenty-first Sunday: Twenty-First Sunday: Missionary “Jesus shall reign where’er the sun” Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 — 2:37
23. 22 - Twenty-second Sunday: Decoration Day “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord” Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 — 4:31
24. 23 - Twenty-third Sunday: Lead, kindly Light, amid th’ encircling gloom” John Henry Newman, 1801-1890 — 2:33

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