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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Incarnation (John Cawood): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz) 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 BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz), a 8.7.8.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.

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  1. 1Hark, what mean those holy voices
  2. Sweetly sounding thro' the skies?
  3. Lo, th' angelic host rejoices;
  4. Heav'nly hallelujahs rise.
  5. Listen to the wondrous story,
  6. Which they chant in hymns of joy:
  7. Glory in the highest, glory!
  8. Glory be to God most high!
  9. 2Peace on earth, good-will from heaven,
  10. Reaching far as man is found;
  11. Souls redeemed, and sins forgiven;
  12. Loud our golden harps shall sound.
  13. Christ is born, the great Anointed;
  14. Heav'n and earth His praises sing!
  15. O receive whom God appointed
  16. For your Prophet, Priest and King.
  17. 3Hasten, mortals, to adore Him;
  18. Learn His name and taste His joy;
  19. Till in heav'n ye sing before Him,
  20. Glory be to God most high!
  21. Let us learn the wondrous story
  22. Of our great Redeemer's birth;
  23. Spread the brightness of His glory
  24. Till it cover all the earth.
  25. 4Amen.

About this music

BATTY — Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz. Setting: "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs Zum Gebrauch" Fridrich Layriz, 1854.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs Zum Gebrauch" Fridrich Layriz, 1854 Hymn 108. Text as found in 1871 Episcopal Hymnal; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the The Incarnation page.

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