WM. B. BRADBURY

William Batchelder Bradbury (1816-1868) was born in in York, Maine, where his father was the leader of a church choir. He spent much time as a child studying music on his own. The family moved to Boston and he began organ lessons. He attended singing classes taught by Lowell Mason, was admitted to Mason’s Bowdin Street church choir, and quickly became known as an organist. With Mason’s help, he taught a singing school in Machias, Maine. He lived in St. Johns, New Brunswick, Canada, returned to Boston, then went to Brooklyn, New York City, as organist at the First Baptist Church. He became organist at the Baptist Tabernacle in NYC and began teaching singing classes. He went to London and Germany, where he studied harmony, composition, and vocal and instrumental music with prominent teachers of the time. Returning to New York, he devoted his time to teaching, conducting conventions, composing, and editing music books. With his brother, Edward G. Bradbury, he started the Bradbury Piano Company. He died in Montclair, New Jersey. He was the author and compiler of fifty-nine books and wrote many hymns and Sunday school songs. His church songs were models for many song writers that followed. In 1862, he wrote the music to the poem “Jesus Loves Me” and added the chorus: “Yes, Jesus loves me, Yes, Jesus Loves me.”

All are mixed chorus unless noted; some may contain divisi.

SET	TITLE	VOICING	TEXT	LISTEN
	“Call John”			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	All the World is List in Sleep			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Alpine herdsman			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Boat song			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Contrast			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Erin is my home			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Fairy Moonlight			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Good night			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Home is on the mountains			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Little maiden			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Longing for spring			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Morning song/echo			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	My Home is in the Mountains		J. E. A. Smith	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Not a Spot on Earth So Pleasant			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Raindrop Chorus		R. S. Taylor	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Sleighride glee			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Sons of the mountains			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Spring song of the alps			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Switzer boy			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Three Temperance Glees			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The California Gold-Hunter		Asahel Abbott	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The generous landlord			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The Hunter and the Milkmaid		Ben Johnson	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The ramble			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The ship boy			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	The springtime is come			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Traveller (sacred)			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing