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Free same-meter accompaniment for Calm On the Listening Ear of Night (Edmund H. Sears): 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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- 1Calm on the list'ning ear of night
- Come heav'n's melodious strains,
- Where wild Judea stretches forth
- Her silver-mantled plains;
- Celestial choirs from courts above
- Shed sacred glories there;
- And angels, with their sparkling lyres,
- Make music on the air.
- 2The answ'ring hills of Palestine
- Send back the glad reply,
- And greet from all their holy heights
- The Day-spring from on high:
- O'er the blue depths of Galilee
- There comes a holier calm,
- And Sharon waves in solemn praise
- Her silent groves of palm.
- 3"Glory to God!" the lofty strain
- The realm of ether fills;
- How sweeps the song of solemn joy
- O'er Judah's sacred hills!
- "Glory to God!" the sounding skies
- Loud with their anthems ring:
- "Peace on the earth; good-will to men,"
- From heav'n's eternal King.
- 4This day shall Christian tongues be mute,
- And Christian hearts be cold?
- O catch the anthem that from heav'n
- O'er Judah's mountains rolled.
- When burst upon that list'ning night
- The high and solemn lay,
- "Glory to God; on earth be peace:"
- Salvation comes today!
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 Calm On the Listening Ear of Night page.
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