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Text:In the Beginning
Author:Chris Shelton
Tune:LASST UNS ERFREUEN
Adapter:Ralph Vaughan Williams
Harmonizer:Ralph Vaughan Williams

270. In the Beginning

Text Information
First Line: In the beginning was the Word
Title: In the Beginning
Author: Chris Shelton
Meter: LM with alleluias
Publication Date: 2020
Scripture: ; ; ;
Topic: Creation; Darkness and Light; Incarnation (2 more...)
Copyright: © 2015 GIA Publications, Inc.
ONE LICENSE: U00500
Notes: May be sung as a call-and-response, where the congregation sings the “Alleluias” without printed music.
Tune Information
Name: LASST UNS ERFREUEN
Adapter: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Harmonizer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Meter: LM with alleluias
Key: D Major
Source: Geistliche Kirchengesäng (present-day Germany), 1623; Adapt. and harm. The English Hymnal, 1906, simplified



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