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COVENTRY (English)

COVENTRY (English)

Composer: Benjamin Cuzens
Published in 57 hymnals


Printable scores: PDF, MusicXML
Audio files: MIDI

Composer: Benjamin Cuzens

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Tune Information

Title: COVENTRY (English)
Composer: Benjamin Cuzens
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Incipit: 55117 16544 35556
Key: B♭ Major/C Major
Source: English tune
Copyright: Public Domain

Texts

O could our thoughts and wishes fly

O could our thoughts and wishes fly
Above these gloomy shades,
To those bright worlds beyond the sky,
Which sorrow ne'er invades!

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Timeline

Arrangements

Organ Solo

  • A Musical Gift Book 2: 20 Organ Preludes on Familiar Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Robert J. Powell
    Published By: Darcey Press (1996) pp. 2

Media

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #1230
  • Four-part harmony, full-score (PDF, NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #2002
Text: The God Who Made Both Heaven and Earth
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)

Instances

Instances (1 - 3 of 3)
TextPage Scan

African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal #527

ScoreAudio

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #1230

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #2002

Include 54 pre-1979 instances
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