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3715678A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — Sicilian Mariners' Hymn, TheGeorge GroveGeorge Grove

SICILIAN MARINERS' HYMN, THE. A melody which, fifty years ago, was in great request as a hymn-tune, chiefly in Nonconformist chapels in England. We give the first two strains.

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It appears as 'Sicilian Mariners' in Miller's 'Dr. Watts's Psalms and Hymns set to new music,' which was entered at Stationers' Hall Oct. 18, 1800; but it exists on a sheet, also containing 'Adeste Fideles,' which was probably published some years before the close of last century. On, this sheet it is set to the words of a hymn to the Virgin Mary. 'O sanctissima, o purissima.'

This is all the information which the writer has been able to collect concerning it.

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