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Text:Sweet Delight, Most Lovely
Author:Paul Gerhardt
Translator:Madeleine Forell Marshall
Tune:SILVER CREEK
Composer:Roy Hopp

225. Sweet Delight, Most Lovely

Text Information
First Line: Sweet delight, most lovely, shining
Title: Sweet Delight, Most Lovely
Author: Paul Gerhardt (1648)
Translator: Madeleine Forell Marshall (1993, alt.)
Meter: 87.87D
Language: English
Publication Date: 1998
Copyright: Tr. © 1993 Madeleine Forell Marshall
Tune Information
Name: SILVER CREEK
Composer: Roy Hopp (1989, adapt.)
Meter: 87.87D
Key: A♭ Major
Copyright: © 1990 Selah Publishing Co., Inc.


Tune Information:

Roy Hopp's tune SILVER CREEK, in the style of a folk tune, is an exquisite fit to the spirit of Marshall's paraphrasing of Pietist Paul Gerhardt's text


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