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Lowell Mason

Birth: January 8, 1792, Medfield, Massachusetts
Death: August 11, 1872, Orange, New Jersey

Lowell Mason worked for fifteen years as a bank clerk, pursuing music on the side but not wanting to be known as a musical man. Numerous publishers rejected his early work, but eventually he was published by the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, Massachusetts.

Though it did not even carry Mason's name, this collection, rejected by so many, eventually went through seventeen editions and sold 50,000 copies. Singing schools and church choirs adopted it for their use.

After this publication, Mason became the director of music at two churches in Boston, and later became the president of the Handel and Haydn Society in 1827. He also served as the first music teacher in an American public school, co-founded the Boston Academy of Music in 1833, and became music superintendent for the Boston school system in 838.

Mason was deeply immersed in the works of classical composers such as Handel, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Their influence is seen in his composing, and he also used works by those composers as the basis for some of the hymn tunes that he arranged. Perhaps the most famous example of this would be the hymn tune ANTIOCH, to which we sing "Joy to the World! The Lord is Come."

Page numbers in Trinity Hymnal (1990) and The Worshiping Church (1990)

Title	Trinity	Worshiping
A Charge to Keep I Have		659
Amidst Us Our Beloved Stands	427
As When the Hebrew Prophet Raised	506
Awake, My Soul, Stretch Every Nerve	596
Blest are the Undefiled	557
Blest Be the Tie That Binds	359	708
Hail to the Brightness of Zion's Glad Morning	346
Hallelujah Praise Jehovah	57
Happy the Home When God Is There	720
Have You Not Known, Have You Not Heard	31
How Gentle God's Commands	681
Joy to the World! The Lord Is Come	304	146
Lord, With Glowing Heart I'd Praise Thee	80
My Faith Looks Up to Thee	528	552
Not Haughty Is My Heart	683
O Could I Speak the Matchless Worth	177
O Day of Rest and Gladness	392
O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing	164	130
O God, Your Judgements Give the King	312
O Thou That Hear'st When Sinners Cry	485
Safely Through Another Week	391
Sing to the Lord, Sing His Praise	62
The Heavens Declare your Glory, Lord	138
The Man Who Once Has Found Abode	90
There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood	253	467
Through All the Changing Scenes of Life	624
What Shall I Render to My God	637
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross	252	213
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks	223