Nearer My God to Thee, JVG-0005-SATB
SM-000379293
Description
- Composer
- Lowell Mason
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Arranger
-
John van Gulik
- Publisher
- John van Gulik
- Genre
- Religious / Christian
- Instrumentation
- Piano, Mixed choir
- Scored for
- Accompanying piano, Choir
- Type of score
- Piano-vocal score
- Key
- F major
- Language
- English
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Year of composition
- 2016
- Description
- Nearer my God to Thee is a vocal arrangement of the traditional tune by Lowell Mason. The lyrics by Sarah F. Adams were loosely based on Genesis 28:11–19, the story of Jacob's dream. In 1912, survivors of the Titanic recounted that this is what the ship’s band played as they knew they were dying. But when you sing the lyrics of the hymn, you’ll find that it’s not so much about dying, as it is about living. About new life through the power of the cross.
- Upload date
- 14 Jan 2020
Comments
Means the Creator of a Derivative work, such is an adaptation, transcription, arrangement or other alteration based on a pre-existing work in any form recognizably derived from the original.
Means the Creator of the original lyrics.
Means the Creator of a translation of the original lyrics.