oh, what songs of the heart (catalog # 1026)

Oh, What Songs of the Heart

(Catalog # 1026)

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Format: Digital

Voicing: SATB

Accompaniment: a cappella or with organ doubling

Composer: William Clayson

Arranger: Timothy Max

Text: Joseph L. Townsend

Performance time: ca. 4:00

Two versions of this arrangement are available:

An intermediate-level version featuring more active voice leading, wider ranges, and heightened dramatic contrast.
A simplified version with fewer moving lines, staying closer in style and structure to the original hymn.

Score

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Instrumentation

In both versions of this arrangement, the organ may be used to accompany a cappella singing by doubling the voices parts.

Play manuals only (no pedals) until beat 4 of measure 24. At that point, add pedals and continue through beat 3 of measure 36. Omit pedals for the remainder of the piece, except in the final two measures.

Text

1. Oh, what songs of the heart
We shall sing all the day,
When again we assemble at home,
When we meet ne’er to part
With the blest o’er the way,
There no more from our loved ones to roam!
When we meet ne’er to part,
Oh, what songs of the heart
We shall sing in our beautiful home.
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2. Tho our rapture and bliss

There’s no song can express,
We will shout, we will sing o’er and o’er,

As we greet with a kiss,

And with joy we caress

All our loved ones that passed on before;

As we greet with a kiss,

In our rapture and bliss,
All our loved ones that passed on before.

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3. Oh, the visions we’ll see

In that home of the blest,

There’s no word, there’s no thought can impart,

But our rapture will be

All the soul can attest,

In the heavenly songs of the heart;

But our rapture will be

In the vision we’ll see
Best expressed in the songs of the heart.

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4. Oh, what songs we’ll employ!
Oh, what welcome we’ll hear!
While our transports of love are complete,
As the heart swells with joy
In embraces most dear
When our heavenly parents we meet!
As the heart swells with joy,
Oh, what songs we’ll employ,
When our heavenly parents we meet!

Oh, What Songs of the Heart

(Catalog # 1026)

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