Friday, March 23, 2012

#83 "Guide Us, O Thou Great Jehovah"

Another great hymn for choir and congregation!  I love this hymn's message and musical lines.  In my personal hymnbook, I have marked it as follows for a choir arrangement:
Verse 1:  SATB
Verse 2:  Women on melody (first line); Men on melody (second line); Men on melody and woman on alto (third and fourth lines)
Verse 3:  Unison (broadly) for first two lines.  Men sing third line "Singing praises" with tenor singing the soprano line and bass singing the alto line.  The woman echo the next "Singing praises" with a soprano and alto duet.  All join SATB on "Songs of glory unto thee, unto thee,"; Last line: "Songs of glory unto thee" with fermatas on the last "un-to thee."

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