Bradbury, William B. Oriola ; A New and Complete Hymn and Tune Book for Sabbath Schools. Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Company, 1860. [12215]
Brown leather spine with printed yellow paper over card (hardcover), a little surface wear, small oblong 5 x 6 1/2 inches. 256 generally clean pp., light tidemark in the top half of many leaves. Good. Hardcover.
The music is in four parts, with round notes.
"This book has been prepared at the urgent request of a large body of Sunday School teachers, superintendents, and others, interested in the Sunday School cause...While most of the good, popular Sunday School melodies of the present day are here inserted, many of them, however, newly arranged and harmonized, a large number of new pieces has been composed expressly for this work, which, it is believed, will prove equally as interesting, instructive, and varied as the old." - Preface.
William Batchelder Bradbury (1816-1868). b. York, Maine; d. Montclair, New Jersey. He was the author and compiler of fifty-nine books of musical collections for choirs and schools, the first published in 1841. His best-known song is probably "Jesus Loves Me," for which he wrote the music and added the chorus, "Yes, Jesus loves me..." Other well-known tunes composed by Bradbury are sung to the hymns "He Leadeth Me," "Just As I Am," "Sweet Hour of Prayer," and "My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less."
