Musical Gems for School and Home: A Rich and Full Collection of Music for the Young, Original and Arranged ... with a New, Easy, and Progressive Course of Elementary Instructions and Exercises |
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... skies shalt thou behold . Through cold to warmth , and ' mid the winter's raging And when earth's breast with ice is bound , Confide ! Confide ! the snow and ice are followed By Spring , with grass and violets crowned . 3. Through war ...
... skies shalt thou behold . Through cold to warmth , and ' mid the winter's raging And when earth's breast with ice is bound , Confide ! Confide ! the snow and ice are followed By Spring , with grass and violets crowned . 3. Through war ...
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... skies now smiling o'er us , Praise the . land which gave us -th , Praise the land which gave us birth . Though our sky is oft- en frowning , Though our Praise the land land is rough and sear : Health and Health and peace ace our labors ...
... skies now smiling o'er us , Praise the . land which gave us -th , Praise the land which gave us birth . Though our sky is oft- en frowning , Though our Praise the land land is rough and sear : Health and Health and peace ace our labors ...
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... skies now smiling o'er us , Praise the land which gave us birth . 3. Freedom's sons of every nation Here a hearty welcome greet , While no haughty tyrant frowning , E'er invades your dear retreat ; Come and help us swell the chorus ...
... skies now smiling o'er us , Praise the land which gave us birth . 3. Freedom's sons of every nation Here a hearty welcome greet , While no haughty tyrant frowning , E'er invades your dear retreat ; Come and help us swell the chorus ...
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... skies ; Loud mirth is false and hol - low , Nor makes us happy long ; But would a man be mer- ry , Why , let him sing a song . But a song would a man be mer - ry , Why let him sing a song , Why let him sing a song , let him sing a song ...
... skies ; Loud mirth is false and hol - low , Nor makes us happy long ; But would a man be mer- ry , Why , let him sing a song . But a song would a man be mer - ry , Why let him sing a song , Why let him sing a song , let him sing a song ...
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... skies drop so bright , Pro - claim Is spar that the kling with plea sun is a sure , to : 6 8 1. rea 2. wel - - rise ; dy to come the light ; - The birds are all The wil lows bow sing - ing , and this is low , almost touch- ing their ...
... skies drop so bright , Pro - claim Is spar that the kling with plea sun is a sure , to : 6 8 1. rea 2. wel - - rise ; dy to come the light ; - The birds are all The wil lows bow sing - ing , and this is low , almost touch- ing their ...
Common terms and phrases
Allegretto Allegro beat or count bells Bells are ringing birds blessed blest blooming Bobolink breeze bright bright waves C. M. von WEBER called cheerful Chorus CHROMATIC SCALE clear Concluded Cres dear DIATONIC SCALE Duet earth Echo ELEMENTS OF VOCAL ev-er farewell flat flowers FRANZ ABT friends gentle hail half notes HALF TONE happy haste haste the day heart heaven Hyho Ju-hee juhee land laugh'd light loud meadows measure Melody merrily merry MINOR SCALE morning mount mountain night o'er peace pleasure praise prayer pull a-way rest ring Ritard roam round Sabbath Semi semitones sharp Sing with numerals skies Skips sleep smiles soft soul sound spring staff streams sung sweet swell syllables teacher thee thou Thro tick a tick tis dawn Treble tree Tune vale VOCAL MUSIC voice Wake and sing whole note wings
Popular passages
Page 139 - Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light. What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight. O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Page 140 - Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto, "In God is our trust.
Page 139 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows...
Page 179 - FROM every stormy wind that blows, From every swelling tide of woes, There is a calm, a sure retreat : "Tis found beneath the mercy-seat. 2 There is a place where Jesus sheds The oil of gladness on our heads ; A place than all besides more sweet : It is the blood-bought mercy-seat.
Page 187 - Still on the theme to dwell. 3 Sweet, on this day of rest, To join in heart and voice With those who love and serve thee best, And in thy name rejoice.
Page 190 - Father, now one prayer I raise thee ; Give an humble, grateful heart; Never let me cease to praise thee, Never from thy fear depart; Then, when years have...
Page 181 - TTAPPY the man whose cautious feet .*-*- Shun the broad way that sinners go ; Who hates the place where atheists meet, And fears to talk as scoffers do. 2 He loves t...
Page 198 - Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
Page 179 - YE nations round the earth, rejoice Before the Lord, your sovereign King : Serve him with cheerful heart and voice ; With all your tongues his glory sing. 2 The Lord is God ; 'tis he alone Doth life, and breath, and being give ; We are his work, and not our own ; The sheep that on his pastures live.
Page 181 - A land upon whose blissful shore There rests no shadow, falls no stain ; There those who meet shall part no more, And those long parted meet again. 3 Its skies are not like earthly skies, With varying hues of shade and light ; It hath no need of suns to rise, To dissipate the gloom of night. 4 There sweeps no desolating wind Across that calm, serene abode ; The wanderer there a home may find, Within the paradise of God.