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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Seasons of the Year (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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.
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- 1With songs and honors sounding loud,
- Address the Lord on high;
- Over the heavens he spreads his cloud,
- And waters vail the sky.
- He sends his showers of blessing down,
- To cheer the plains below;
- He makes the grass the mountains crown,
- And corn in valleys grow.
- 2His steady counsels change the face
- Of the declining year;
- He bids the sun cut short his race,
- And wintry days appear.
- His hoary frost, his fleecy snow,
- Descend and clothe the ground;
- The liquid streams forbear to flow,
- In icy fetters bound.
- 3He sends his word and melts the snow,
- The fields no longer mourn;
- He calls the warmer gales to blow,
- And bids the spring return.
- The changing wind, the flying cloud,
- Obey his mighty Word:
- With songs and honors sounding loud,
- Praise ye the sovereign Lord.
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 The Seasons of the Year page.
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