Text:How sweet the Name of Jesus sounds
Author:Rev. John Newton
Tune:ST. PETER
Composer:A. R. Reinagle
Composer (Descant):Dr. Alan Gray

490. How sweet the Name of Jesus sounds

Text Information
First Line: How sweet the Name of Jesus sounds
Author: Rev. John Newton (1779)
Meter: C.M.
Publication Date: 1939
Topic: The Holy Name; Circumcision of Christ: January 1; Saints' Days and Other Holy Days: The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, March 25
Tune Information
Name: ST. PETER
Composer: A. R. Reinagle (1836)
Composer (Descant): Dr. Alan Gray
Meter: C.M.
Key: E♭ Major
Copyright: Descant by permission of the Cambridge University Press.
Notes: For a lower setting see No. 37



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