When to the Holy City

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First Line: When to the Holy City
Language: English
Publication Date: 1907
Copyright: This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.

Tune

WIE SOLL ICH DICH EMPFANGEN

Johann Crüger composed WIE SOLL ICH DICH EMPFANGEN for Gerhardt's text and published the tune in 1653; the tune name is the German incipit of Gerhardt's text. Enhancing a sense of personal and communal meditation, the tune gives reflective support to this text. The tune is in isorhythmic form (all…

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