Sankey and Bliss's collection can be found in many libraries today. 1 to 6, an extension of the 1874 Gospel Songs. Bliss and Ira Sankey issued Gospel Hymns, no's. Bliss edited a collection titled Gospel Songs, and in 1875 P. The first published use of the term 'gospel' to describe this kind of music was apparently in the 1870s.

The revival movement employed popular singers and song leaders (starting with Ira Sankey) who used songs by writers such as George F.

Prior to the meeting of Moody and Sankey in 1870, there was an American rural/frontier history of revival and camp meeting songs, but the gospel hymn was of a different character, and it served the needs of mass revivals in the great cities. Sankey) and the Holiness-Pentecostal movement. Its roots were the mass revival movement (starting with Dwight L. Gospel music as we know it began in the late 19th century. However, a common theme of most gospel music is praise, worship or thanks to God, Christ, or the Holy Spirit. Gospel music is composed and performed for many purposes, including aesthetic pleasure, religious or ceremonial purposes, and as an entertainment product for the marketplace. Like other forms of Christian music the creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of gospel music varies according to culture and social context.

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as (in terms of the varying music styles) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music. Gospel music, can in crude terms, be though of as a sort of cross between popular music and hymns, for a better definition see below. They are being shared on this site for educational purposes only, please see our copyright page for more info. These transcriptions are made by many different individuals from all over the world for their own research and instruction and as such should not be considered definitive 'official' versions or representative of any particular artist or performance. THIS COLLECTION OF LYRICS with chords includes 1200+ songs, many of these date back to the 19th and early 20th century although many of them are more modern.

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