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Play “Blessed Are the Dead that Die in the Lord”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Blessed Are the Dead that Die in the Lord (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) in four-part harmony, 4 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.
Sung here to ST. ANNE (William Croft), a Common Meter (8.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Hear what the voice from heaven proclaims
- For all the pious dead!
- Sweet is the savour of their names,
- And soft their dying bed.
- 2They die in Jesus, and are blest;
- How calm their slumbers are!
- From sufferings and from woes released,
- And freed from every snare:
- 3Till that illustrious morning come,
- When all Thy saints shall rise,
- And, decked in full immortal bloom,
- Attend Thee to the skies.
- 4Their tongues, great Prince of Life, shall join
- With their recovered breath,
- And all the immortal host ascribe
- Their victory to Thy death.
About this music
ST. ANNE — William Croft. Setting: composite found in "The Lutheran Hymnary", 1913.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'The Lutheran Hymnary', 1913, Hymn 261. Arrangement is composite, first half from "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869, Hymn 231. ed William Henry Monk Second half is from "The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer", 1890, Hymn 279. ed. Charles Vincent, D.J. Wood, John Stainer; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Blessed Are the Dead that Die in the Lord page.
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