Awake, O Sleeper

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Awake, O sleeper, rise from death (Dufner)

Author: Delores Dufner
Tune: MCKEE
ONE LICENSE: 98234
Published in 1 hymnal

Piano/Organ
	The Art of Hymn Playing: 250 Introductio…

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Author: Delores Dufner

Delores Dufner is a member of St. Benedict’s Monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota, with Master's Degrees in Liturgical Music and Liturgical Studies. She is currently a member and a Fellow of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, the National Pastoral Musicians (NPM), the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), and the Monastic Worship Forum. Delores is a writer of liturgical, scripturally based hymn and song texts which have a broad ecumenical appeal and are contracted or licensed by 34 publishers in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and China. She has received more than 50 commissions to write texts for special occasions or needs and has published over 200 hymns, many of which h… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Awake, O sleeper, rise from death (Dufner)
Title:	Awake, O Sleeper
Author:	Delores Dufner
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Publication Date:	2008
Copyright:	© 1993 Delores Dufner, PUblished by OCP Publications

Ephesians 5:14-20
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MCKEE

MC KEE has an interesting history. According to a letter from Charles V. Stanford (PHH 512) to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (who arranged the tune for piano in his Twenty-Four Negro Melodies, 1905), MC KEE was originally an Irish tune taken to the United States and adapted by African American slaves. It…

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