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Free same-meter accompaniment for Jesus! Name of Wondrous Love (William Walsham How): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) 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 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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- 1Jesus! name of wondrous love!
- Name all other names above!
- Unto which must ev'ry knee
- Bow in deep humility.
- 2Jesus, name of priceless worth
- To the fallen sons of earth,
- For the promise that it gave:
- Jesus shall His people save.
- 3Jesus, name of mercy mild,
- Given to the holy Child,
- When the cup of human woe
- First He tasted here below.
- 4Jesus, only name that's giv'n
- Under all the mighty heav'n,
- Whereby man, by sin enslaved,
- Bursts his fetters and is saved.
- 5Jesus, name of wondrous love,
- Human name of God above;
- Pleading only this we flee,
- Helpless, 0 our God, to Thee.
- 6Amen.
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 Jesus! Name of Wondrous Love page.
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