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Text:What Is This Place
Author:Huub Oosterhuis, b. 1933
Translator:David Smith, b. 1933
Tune:KOMT NU MET ZANG
Arranger:Bernard Huijbers, 1922-2003

462. What Is This Place

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Text Information
First Line: What is this place, where we are meeting?
Title: What Is This Place
Author: Huub Oosterhuis, b. 1933
Translator: David Smith, b. 1933
Meter: 98 98 9 66
Language: English
Publication Date: 2015
Topic: Church; Gathering; Service Music for Mass: Entrance Song (Gathering of Processional) (2 more...)
Copyright: © 1967, Gooi En Sticht, bv. Baarn, The Netherlands, Exclusive English language agent: OCP Publications
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Tune Information
Name: KOMT NU MET ZANG
Arranger: Bernard Huijbers, 1922-2003
Meter: 98 98 9 66
Key: B♭ Major
Source: Trad. Dutch hymn; Valerius' Nederlndtsche Gedenckclanck, Haarlem, 1626
Copyright: © 1967, Gooi En Sticht, bv. Baarn, The Netherlands, Exclusive English language agent: OCP Publications



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