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Play “Come, Christian Brethren!”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Come, Christian Brethren! (Henry Kirke White): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) in four-part harmony, 2 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 CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons), a 7.7.7.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Christian brethren, ere we part,
- Every voice and every heart
- Join, and to our Father raise
- One last hymn of grateful praise.
- 2Though we here should meet no more,
- Yet there is a brighter shore;
- There released from toil and pain,
- Saints with joy shall meet again.
About this music
CANTERBURY — Orlando Gibbons. 'Canterbury' or 'Song 13' Orlando Gibbons, 1623. Setting: "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'Common Service Book With Hymnal' ULCA, 1917 Hymn 156.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Come, Christian Brethren! page.
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