I love this new addition to the 1985 hymnal. The text and music work so well together. I have notes in my personal hymnbook to use it as a choir number like this:
Verse 1: SATB with piano accompaniment as written in hymnal
Verse 2: Tenor II and Baritones sing melody; Tenor I sings tenor; Bass II sings bass; women "ooh";
(piano plays verse an octave lower)
Interlude by piano (last four measures, an octave higher)
Verse 3: SSA Women; Soprano I sings tenor an octave higher (piano plays verse an octave higher)
Verse 4: SATB (A capella) Choir repeats last two measures slowly for a TAG ending.
Measures 1-2 are just a reverse of measures 9-10.
"SING * PLAY * LOVE"...My thoughts and memories as I play one hymn each day from the hymnbook of "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" during 2012.
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