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309–318: For Women Number Hymn Words Music Notes 309: As Sisters in Zion (Women) Emily H. Woodmansee: Janice Kapp Perry: 310: A Key Was Turned in Latter Days (Women) Jan Underwood Pinborough: Charlene Anderson Newell: 311: We Meet Again as Sisters (Women) Paul L. Anderson: Bonnie Lauper Goodliffe: 312: We Ever Pray for Thee (Women) Evan ...
1918 "Songs of Zion" In 1908, nine LDS Church mission presidents collaborated to produce a more simple hymnal with music and text. At the time, there were several songbooks and hymnbooks in use in Utah, including the Latter-day Saints' Psalmody, the Manchester Hymnal, the Deseret Sunday School Union Songbooks, Primary hymnbooks for children, etc.
Popular funeral passages were easily recognized by Mormons at the time. Speakers placed various verses "in the context of the restored truths of an all-encompassing plan of salvation," emphasizing the eternal nature of family units. Quoting just the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants during funeral sermons became more common after 1850. [29]
The music is an adapted version of Caroline Sheridan Norton's "The Officer's Funeral March". [1] George D. Pyper described "We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet" as "exclusively a Latter-day Saint hymn; a Mormon heartthrob; a song of the Restoration". [2]
Vanja Yorgason Watkins (born 1938) is a prolific writer of hymns of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). She composed the music for "Press Forward Saints" and "Families Can Be Together Forever", hymns that appear in the 1985 English-language hymnal of the LDS Church.
The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, formerly known as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, is an American choir affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It has performed in the Salt Lake Tabernacle for over 100 years. [ 3 ]
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In addition to caring for the bodies of the deceased, LDS women were also responsible for planning funeral services. These involved singing songs, saying prayers, and listening to funeral sermons, [30] which were often given by at least one man possessing the Melchizedek priesthood. [33]