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Text:Song of Zechariah
Author:James Quinn, S.J.
Tune:KINGSFOLD
Arranger and harmonizer:Ralph Vaughan Williams

601. Song of Zechariah

Text Information
First Line: Blest be the God of Israel
Title: Song of Zechariah
Latin Title: Benedictus
Author: James Quinn, S.J. (1969; alt. 1985)
Meter: CMD
Language: English
Publication Date: 1990
Scripture:
Copyright: © 1969 James Quinn, S.J. Reprinted by permission of Georffrey Chapman, a division of Cassell Publishers Ltd., London.
Tune Information
Name: KINGSFOLD
Arranger and harmonizer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1906)
Meter: CMD
Key: e minor
Source: English Country Songs, 1893
Copyright: Arrangement and harmonization from the English Hymnal, 1906. Used by permission of Oxford University Press.



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