What Sweeter Music PDF
What Sweeter Music PDF
What Sweeter Music PDF
JOHN RUTTER
*Words by Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Do=Ges
Andante tranquillo (MM=66)
p legato sempre p dolce e legato
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What sweeter mu - sic can we
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bring Than a ca - rol for to sing The birth of this our heav’nly King? A-wake the
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voice! A-wake the string! Dark and dull night, fly hence a way, And give the ho - nour to this
a tempo
poco meno mosso dim. p p p poco rit. $ m p cantabile
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day That sees De -cem-ber turn’d to May, That sees De -cem-ber turn’d to May. Why does the
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chill - ing win-ter’s morn Smile, like a field be set with corn? Or Smell like a mea - dow new-ly
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S1. 2 . Turns all the
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earth. We see him come, and know him ours, Who, with his sun-shine and his show’rs, Turns the
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pa-tient ground to flow’rs, turns all the pa - tient ground to flow’rs. The darling of the
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turns all the ground to flow’rs. The dar - ling of the
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world is come, And fit it is, we find a room To welcome him, to welcome him.
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world is come, we find a room to welcome him. The
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nobler part of all the house here, is the heart, Which we will give him and be- queath This
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hea - ven - ly King.
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(hum)
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