O Lord, Our God, How Excellent

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O Lord, our God, how excellent. How glorious is Your name

Author: Fred R. Anderson (1986)
Tune: WINCHESTER OLD
ONE LICENSE: 119783
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Author: Fred R. Anderson

FRED R. ANDERSON is pastor emeritus of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, a liturgical theologian, and a recognized hymn writer whose hymn and psalm texts appear in Protestant and Catholic hymnals around the world. —Singing God's Psalms (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016) His collections of psalm paraphrases include Singing Psalms of Joy and Praise (1986) and Singing God's Psalms (2016). Go to person page >

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First Line:	O Lord, our God, how excellent. How glorious is Your name
Title:	O Lord, Our God, How Excellent
Author:	Fred R. Anderson (1986)
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	© 1986 Fred R. Anderson; from Singing Psalms of Joy and Praise. Used by permission.

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WINCHESTER OLD

WINCHESTER OLD is a famous common-meter psalm tune, presumably arranged by George Kirbye (b. Suffolk, England, c. 1560; d. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, 1634) from a melody in Christopher Tye's Acts of the Apostles and published in T. Este's The Whole Book of Psalmes (1592) set to Psalm 84. Ki…

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