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Free same-meter accompaniment for Sinai and Zion (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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 ST. ANNE (William Croft), a Common Meter (8.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Not to the terrors of the Lord,
- The tempest, fire, and smoke:
- Not to the thunder of that word
- Which God on Sinai spoke:
- 2But we are come to Sion's hill,
- The city of our God;
- Where milder words declare His will,
- And spread His love abroad.
- 3Behold th' innumerable host
- Of angels clothed in light:
- Behold the spirits of the just,
- Whose faith is turned to sight.
- 4Behold the blest assembly there
- Whose names are writ in heaven;
- Hear God, the Judge of all, declare
- Their sins, through Christ, forgiven.
- 5Angels, and living saints, and dead
- But one communion make:
- All join in Christ, their living Head,
- And of His love partake.
About this music
ST. ANNE — William Croft. Setting: composite found in "The Lutheran Hymnary", 1913.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'The Lutheran Hymnary', 1913, Hymn 261. Arrangement is composite, first half from "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869, Hymn 231. ed William Henry Monk Second half is from "The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer", 1890, Hymn 279. ed. Charles Vincent, D.J. Wood, John Stainer; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Sinai and Zion page.
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