GREENVILLE (Rousseau)

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GREENVILLE (Rousseau)

Composer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1752)
Published in 456 hymnals

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Piano/Organ
	Arise and Come to Jesus (Come, Ye Sinner…

Choral
	Fill Our Hearts with Joy and Peace

Instrumental
	Five Hymn Accompaniments for Brass Quart…

Composer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau; b. 1712, Geneva; d. 1778, Paris. Born in the city-state of Geneva in the Swiss Confederacy, his mother died whenhe was 9 days old. Rousseau's father was a watchmaker, but got into trouble with local officials and left the town, leaving his son with an uncle who had Rousseau and his own son board with a Calvinist minister for 2 years. He was later apprenticed to a notary and then to an engraver, who beat him. He ran away from Geneva at 16. In nearby Savoy, he sheltered with a Roman Catholic priest. He was sent to Italy to convert to Catholicism. He supported himself as a servant, secretary, and tutor. His life was filled with personal and political upheaval, and his writings infuriated many, to the point he had… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	GREENVILLE (Rousseau)
Composer:	Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1752)
Meter:	8.7.8.7.8.7
Incipit:	33211 22321 55433
Key:	F Major
Source:	From the opera Le Devin du Village (The Village Soothsayer), by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1752
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy

Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Fill our hearts with joy and peace

Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Come, thou Fount of every blessing;
tune my heart to sing thy grace;
streams of mercy, never ceasing,
call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
sung by flaming tongues above;
praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
mount of God’s unchanging love!

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Choral Fill Our Hearts with Joy and Peace I Will Arise COME, YE SINNERS More Choral...
Instrumental Five Hymn Accompaniments for Brass Quartet and Organ, Set 5 Called to Gather as God's People/Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing - Full Score and Instrument Set More Instrumental...
PowerPoint COME, YE SINNERS, POOR AND WRETCHED (Trinity Hymnal 472) COME, YE SINNERS, POOR AND NEEDY (Celebration 486) COME, YE SINNERS, POOR AND NEEDY (Hymnal for Worship & Celebration 334) More PowerPoint...

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

Hymn Tunes with Varied Harmonies Book 5: For Pianoforte or Organ
Composer/Editor Joseph E. Newell
Published By: Edwin Ashdown, Limited (London) (1920) pp. 10

Organ Solo

Sunday Morning Favorites Volume 2: For Solo Organ
Composer/Editor Harold H. DeCou
Published By: Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc. (1992) pp. 62
The Sunday Morning Organist Volume Four: Preludes, Offertories, and Postludes
Composer/Editor Harold H. DeCou
Published By: Singspiration Music, Inc. (1967) pp. 14
Hymn Tune Preludes for the Organ No. 1
Composer/Editors Samuel W. Shanko; Carolyn J. Cowan
Published By: Broadman Press (1966) pp. 24
Hymn Tune Preludes for the Organ No. 2
Composer/Editors Samuel W. Shanko; Carolyn J. Cowan
Published By: Broadman Press (1966) pp. 8

Piano Solo

Hymn Tune Preludes for the Piano No. 1
Composer/Editors Max Lyall; Louis O. Ball, Jr.
Published By: Broadman Press (1966) pp. 24
Hymn Tune Preludes for the Piano No. 2
Composer/Editors Max Lyall; Louis O. Ball, Jr.
Published By: Broadman Press (1966) pp. 23
Rudy Atwood Piano Arrangements Vol. 4
Composer/Editor Rudy Atwood
Published By: Alma Records, Inc. (1965) pp. 1