Exalted Hope C.M.
By David Wright
- Key
- B♭ major
- Type
- Fuging tune
- Time signature
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4
4 - Composed
- 2011
- Text
- Isaac Watts, 1719
Listen to recordings
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EH - Trumpet singing
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Exalted Hope -- Portland 10/19/13
Description
Published in The Shenandoah Harmony (2013), p. 107, and in The Trumpet (volume 1, number 2). Thanks to Robert Stoddard for assistance with LilyPond.
Text
Blest are the souls that hear and know
The Gospel's joyful sound;
Peace shall attend where'er they go,
And light their steps surround.
Their joy shall bear their spirits up
Through their Redeemer's name;
His righteousness exalts their hope,
Nor Satan dares condemn.