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William Steffe

Date de naissance 1830 à South Carolina, Etats-Unis d Amérique

Date de décès 1890

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William Steffe

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William Steffe (1830–1890) collected and edited a camp-meeting song with the traditional "Glory Hallelujah" refrain, in about 1856.[1] It opened with "Say, brothers, will you meet us / on Canaan's happy shore?" The tune became widely known.

Early in the American Civil War, this tune was used to create the Union army marching song "John Brown's Body", which begins with the lyrics "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, but his soul goes marching on."

In November 1861, Julia Ward Howe, having heard this version, used the tune as the basis of her new verse, later known as "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".

References

  1. Annie J. Randall, "A Censorship of Forgetting: Origins and Origin Myths of 'Battle Hymn of the Republic'", in Music, Power, and Politics, edited by Annie J. Randall, Routledge, 2004, p. 12, 15, 16.
  • C. A. Brown (revised by Willard A. Heaps), The Story of Our National Ballads, 1960, pages 174178
  • William A. Ward (ed.), The American Bicentennial Songbook, Vol. 1 (1770-1870s), 1975, page 236

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