Behold His Cross Against the Sky

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Behold his cross against the sky,

Author: Edna A. Lambert (1958)
Published in 3 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Seasons of Praise (Artistic Hymn-Based M…

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	FESTIVAL HYMNS AND PROCESSIONALS

Handbells
	Easter Triumph

Author: Edna A. Lambert

Lambert, Edna A. Of Wellington, New Zealand, member of Kelburn Presbyterian Church. --The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Behold his cross against the sky,
Title:	Behold His Cross Against the Sky
Author:	Edna A. Lambert (1958)
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Language:	English
Notes:	Alt. Tune: WALTHAM, p. 86
Copyright:	© 1958 The Hymn Society of America

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MELCOMBE (Webbe)

Also known as: ST. PHILIPS BENEDICTION GRANTON NAZARETH MELCOMBE was first used as an anonymous chant tune (with figured bass) in the Roman Catholic Mass and was published in 1782 in An Essay on the Church Plain Chant. It was first ascribed to Samuel Webbe (the elder; b. London, England, 1740; d.…

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TRURO (Williams)

TRURO is an anonymous tune, first published in Thomas Williams's Psalmodia Evangelica, (second vol., 1789) as a setting for Isaac Watts' "Now to the Lord a noble song." Virtually nothing is known about this eighteenth-century British editor of the two-volume Psalmodia Evangelica, a collection of thr…

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