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Play “Manifestation to the Gentiles”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Manifestation to the Gentiles (Charles Wesley): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) 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 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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- 1Sons of men, behold from far,
- Hail the long-expected Star;
- Jacob’s Star that gilds the night,
- Guides bewildered nature right.
- 2Mild it shines on all beneath,
- Piercing through the shades of death;
- Scatt’ring error’s wide-spread night,
- Kindling darkness into light.
- 3Nations all, remote and near,
- Haste to see your God appear:
- Haste, for Him your hearts prepare,
- Meet Him manifested there.
- 4There behold the Dayspring rise,
- Pouring light upon your eyes;
- See it chase the shades away,
- Shining to the perfect day.
- 5Sing, ye morning stars, again,
- God descends on earth to reign,
- Deigns for man His life t’employ;
- Shout, ye sons of God, for joy!
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 Manifestation to the Gentiles page.
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