Virtual accompanist
Play “The Excellency of the Christian Religion”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Excellency of the Christian Religion (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 4 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 OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois), a Long Meter (8.8.8.8) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
Choir part trainer (soprano, alto, tenor, bass)
Solo or mute a part, raise your own part, slow it down, or loop one line until you have it.
Press Play once to choose a line to loop.
- 1Let everlasting glories crown
- Thy head, my Saviour and my Lord;
- Thy hands have brought salvation down,
- And writ the blessing in Thy Word.
- 2In vain our trembling conscience seeks
- Some solid ground to rest upon;
- With long despair our spirit breaks,
- Till we apply to Thee alone.
- 3How well Thy blessed truths agree!
- How wise and holy Thy commands!
- Thy promises, how firm they be!
- How firm our hope and comfort stands!
- 4Should all the forms that men devise
- Assault my faith with treacherous art,
- I'd call them vanity and lies,
- And bind Thy Gospel to my heart.
About this music
OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the The Excellency of the Christian Religion page.
Played in your browser with instrument sounds from the FluidR3 soundfont by Frank Wen (MIT license). No recordings are used.