SKU: LX.10-5723L

This soulful new anthem from Pamela Stewart and Brad Nix invites your congregation to find living water in Christ. The text is firmly rooted in scripture, and the music, set in a fun gospel 3/4, is a perfect marriage for the lyric. The part-writing is crafted for performance by a wide range of ensembles, and the ranges are manageable for most singers. Highly recommended!

SKU: A0.1091742

The lyrics reflect on America's beginnings with a few people seeking freedom to worship God freely. They recall the battles fought to gain that freedom. It recalls the founding of our nation based on trust in God, the weaving of Judeo-Christian principles into our founding documents. Despite mistakes made, our nation has been blessed by God through repentance and forgiveness. It recognizes the threats of secular culture and the importance of remaining steadfast in our faith .... we must be diligent to continue affirming that, In God We Trust.

SKU: A0.1490010

Whiter Than the Snow/Eden Reeder Latta  - Henry Southwick Perkins BLESSED BE THE FOUNTAIN
arr. Ken Litton (ASCAP)As an SBC music missionary active in Brazil I quickly discovered the hymns missionaries had taken with them as the work gained impetus from the 1890s when the Bagbys arrived to build on the foundation laid by early pioneers like Solomon Ginsburg. I found myself leading those hymns from the nearly 100 year old Cantor Cristão (Christian Singer) in the strongly attended evening services at the Igreja Batista Rio Doce (Sweet River Baptist Church) in Recife, with people literally leaning in through the windows from outside to sing along. Just a normal p.m. attendance or... curiosity about the missionary leading? No, certainly it was the message of the gospel in these great hymns and in the Brazilians’ creative work as well. I mainly remember holding that small print hymnal in one hand and leading with the other (shaking badly) and singing in Portuguese!
From that kind of congregational participation I vividly remember the hymn Blessed be the Fountain by Eden Reeder Latta (1839 - 1915) and Henry Southwick Perkins (1833 -1914) with it’s energetic dotted eighth and sixteenth rhythm figures and text of confession based on Zechariah 13:1. That text was very important in the lives of disciples in Brazil and in my own heart. Here I have used only the verses of the text and tune, simply smoothing out the rhythm and adjusting the lyric to more modern usage (yet preserving the devotional pronouns Thee, Thy and Thine).
The tune BLESSED BE THE FOUNTAIN is altered in rhythm, tempo and one descending interval from the original.  The arrangement is by me, having built the intro, interlude and key change as well as the ending from the material that constituted the refrain in the origina. As a bridge and additional textual/musical impulse into the key change and final verse I’ve interpolated the refrain from the well-known gospel hymn Whiter than Snow (FISCHER) by James Nicholson and William G. Fischer.
The voices include a wide variety of unison, two-part and four-part passages that are well within the capability of the average church choir. The accompaniment difficulty level is about as minimal as it can be I hope, while still reflecting support for the voices, a measure of variety as well as some real independence.
I certainly think choirs of some ability and their dedicated accompanists will enjoyWhiter Than the Snow as much as I have in developing it.

SKU: A0.1206763

A brilliant setting of an age-old affirmation of Christian faith.  For choir, organ, and timpani.  Includes choir part, organ part (with choir cues), and timpani part.  For concert or church use.

SKU: LV.4728

Dese Weary Feet. Song and Chorus. Words and Music by Geo. M. Vickers. Published 1880 by Lee & Walker, 1113 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice (solo and satb chorus) instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include African Americans, Dialects, Distress, Freedmen, Homesickness, Log cabins, Ethnic stereotypes. First line reads I am trying hard to reach de blessed turning..

About The Lester S. Levy Collection

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.

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