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Play “Perfect Peace”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Perfect Peace (Mary A. S. Barber): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) in four-part harmony, 3 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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- 1Prince of Peace, control my will,
- Bid this struggling heart be still;
- Bid my fears and doubtings cease,
- Hush my spirit into peace.
- 2Thou hast bought me with thy blood,
- Open'd wide the gate to God;
- Peace, I ask, but peace must be,
- Lord, in being one with thee.
- 3May thy will, not mine, be done,
- May thy will and mine be one;
- Chase these doubtings from my heart,
- Now thy perfect peace impart.
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 Perfect Peace page.
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