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Play “When on Sinai's top I see”
Free same-meter accompaniment for When on Sinai's top I see (James Montgomery): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) 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 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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- 1When on Sinai's top I see
- God descend, in majesty,
- To proclaim his holy law,
- All my spirit sinks with awe.
- 2When, in ecstasy sublime,
- Tabor's glorious steep I climb,
- At the too transporting light,
- Darkness rushes 'o'er my sight.
- 3When on Calvary I rest,
- God, in flesh made manifest,
- Shines in my Redeemer's face,
- Full of beauty, truth, and grace.
- 4Here I would for ever stay,
- Weep and gaze my soul away;
- Thou art heaven on earth to me,
- Lovely, mournful Calvary!
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 When on Sinai's top I see page.
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