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Free same-meter accompaniment for Hark! a Thrilling Voice Is Sounding (Edward Caswall): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz) in four-part harmony, 6 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 BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz), a 8.7.8.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.

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  1. 1Hark! a thrilling voice is sounding:
  2. "Christ is nigh," it seems to say;
  3. "Cast away the works of darkness,
  4. O ye children of the day!"
  5. 2Startled at the solemn warning,
  6. Let the earth-bound soul arise;
  7. Christ, our Sun, all sloth dispelling,
  8. Shines upon the morning skies.
  9. 3Lo, the Lamb, so long expected,
  10. Comes with pardon down from heaven;
  11. Let us haste, with tears of sorrow,
  12. One and all, to be forgiven.
  13. 4So, when next He comes with glory,
  14. And the world is wrapped in fear,
  15. May He then as our Defender
  16. On the clouds of heaven appear.
  17. 5Honor, glory, might, and blessing
  18. To the Father and the Son,
  19. With the everlasting Spirit,
  20. One in Three, and Three in One.
  21. 6Amen.

About this music

BATTY — Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz. Setting: "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs Zum Gebrauch" Fridrich Layriz, 1854.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs Zum Gebrauch" Fridrich Layriz, 1854 Hymn 108. Text as found in 1871 Episcopal Hymnal; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Hark! a Thrilling Voice Is Sounding page.

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