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Gates of Beauty: Six Hymn Settings for Organ
Employing canonic treatment, vigorous trio textures, or modal harmonies evoking an air of serenity, these settings are suitable for offertories or preludes.
Employing canonic treatment, vigorous trio textures, or modal harmonies evoking an air of serenity, these six hymn settings are of suitable length for offertories or preludes to the worship service. Inspired by the straightforward musical forms and clean counterpoint of prior centuries, the harmonies range from the simple to the sumptuously colorful, with each tune unmistakably proclaimed in order to evoke quick recognition in every listener.
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By All Your Saints in Warfare
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Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty
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| ISBN-13 | 9780758661128 |
| Occasions | Advent, Beginning of Service, Church Militant, Church Triumphant, Easter, End Times, Festival, Good Friday, Holy Week, House of God, Redeemer, Society |
| LSB Hymn Numbers | 338, 447, 449, 450, 476, 517, 518, 848, 849, 901 |
| Instrumentation | Organ |
| Tune Names | BEACH SPRING, HERZLICH TUT MICH VERLANGEN, JEFFERSON, KING'S LYNN, O HAUPT VOLL BLUT UND WUNDEN, SEPTEM VERBA, UNSER HERRSCHER |
| Music List | 2018 |
| Music Difficulty | Medium |
| Collection Content | By All Your Saints in Warfare; Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus; Jesus, in Your Dying Woes; Lord, Whose Love through Humble Service; O Sacred Head, Now Wounded; Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty; Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness; Who Are You Who Walk in Sorrow |
| Music Setting Composers | Benjamin Kolodziej |
| Music Tune Composers | Bernhard Schumacher; Hans Leo Hassler; Joachim Neander; Ralph Vaughan Williams |
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