♪♪♪ SING ALONG ♪♪♪ as a piano plays the chords and melody (from the SOLO Edition of the Secular Hymnal).
Singing along to a simple, chorded melody like this is an ideal way to develop your harmonizing skills!
Lyrics:
A beauty hides in ev'ryone
Our challenge is to bring it out
No matter who or what they've done
They have a beauty, we've no doubt.
There's beauty in the jails
In liars with their tales
In cynics as they doubt
In bigots as they shout
Our challenge is to bring it out.
Here's the same hymn in 4-part harmony (from the SATB Edition of the Secular Hymnal). If you and your choir prefer to print out your own score of this hymn, click here to access a beautiful PDF file.
Listen to this arrangement with the SOPRANO VOICE predominant.
Listen to this arrangement with the ALTO VOICE predominant.
Listen to this arrangement with the TENOR VOICE predominant.
Listen to this arrangement with the BASS VOICE predominant.
To research the history of this hymn tune: http://www.hymnary.org/hymnal/SH2014
This secular hymn was chosen for the St. Louis Peace Choir's 2015 Songbook.
