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Free same-meter accompaniment for God's Condescension: organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) in four-part harmony, 5 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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- 1O Thou to Whom all creatures bow
- Within this earthly frame;
- Through all the world how great art Thou!
- How glorious is Thy Name!
- 2In heaven Thy wondrous acts are sung,
- Nor fully reckon'd there;
- And yet Thou mak'st the infant tongue
- Thy boundless praise declare.
- 3When heaven, thy beauteous work on high,
- Employs my wondering sight;
- The moon, that nightly rules the sky,
- With stars of feebler light;
- 4O what is man, that, Lord, Thou lov'st
- To keep him in Thy mind?
- Or what his offspring, that Thou prov'st
- To them so wondrous kind?
- 5O Thou to Whom all creatures bow
- Within this earthly frame,
- Through all the world how great art Thou!
- How glorious is Thy Name!
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 God's Condescension page.
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