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Free same-meter accompaniment for Let There Be Light (John Marriott): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ITALIAN HYMN (Felice Giardini) 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 ITALIAN HYMN (Felice Giardini), a 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Thou, whose almighty Word
- Chaos and darkness heard,
- And took their flight;
- Hear us, we humbly pray;
- And where the Gospel day
- Sheds not its glorious ray,
- Let there be light!
- 2Thou, Who didst come to bring
- On Thy redeeming wing
- Healing and sight;
- Health to the sick in mind,
- Sight to the inly blind,
- O now to all mankind,
- Let there be light!
- 3Spirit of truth and love,
- Life-giving Holy Dove,
- Speed forth Thy flight;
- Move on the waters' face,
- Bearing the lamp of grace,
- And in earth's darkest place
- Let there be light!
- 4Holy and blessed Three,
- Glorious Trinity,
- Wisdom, Love, Might;
- Boundless as ocean's tide,
- Rolling in fullest pride,
- Thro' the earth, far and wide,
- Let there be light!
- 5Amen.
About this music
ITALIAN HYMN — Felice Giardini. 'Italian Hymn' Felice de Giardini, 1769. Setting: "The Methodist Sunday School Hymnal", 1911.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'The Methodist Sunday School Hymnal', 1911 Hymn 1.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Let There Be Light page.
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