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BATH (Cooke)

BATH (Cooke)

Composer: William Henry Cooke
Published in 7 hymnals


Printable scores: PDF, MusicXML
Audio files: MIDI

Composer: William Henry Cooke

Organist in the Argyll Congregational Church from1 1856-1880. Honorary choirmaster of Bath Abbey. email to Hymnary from granddaughter Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: BATH (Cooke)
Composer: William Henry Cooke
Meter: 6.6.8.6.8.8
Incipit: 33324 33334 23333
Key: E♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Texts

Friends Separated For a Season

How great was Sodom's sin

Why Do The People Rage?

Why do the people rage,
Devising frantic things?
Why do the kings of earth engage
Against the King of kings?
"Come, let us burst His yoke," they say,
"And cast His hateful bonds away!"

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Timeline

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #1611
Text: Friend After Friend Departs
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)
The Cyber Hymnal #9842
Text: Why Do The People Rage?
  • PDF (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #16570
Text: How Great Was Sodom's Sin
  • PDF (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)

Instances in all hymnals

Instances (1 - 3 of 3)
TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #1611

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #9842

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #16570

Include 4 pre-1979 instances
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