Tune: A VA DE

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A VA DE

Composer: Billema Kwillia
Published in 20 hymnals

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Piano/Organ
	Many and Great: Introductions and Accomp…

Choral
	With Angel Choirs, Set 2

Instrumental
	Come, Let Us Bring

Composer: Billema Kwillia

Billema Kwillia is a Liberian convert to Christianity and a literacy teacher-evangelist in that country. --rogergmiller22152.tripod.com/ Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	A VA DE
Composer:	Billema Kwillia
Place Of Origin:	Liberia
Meter:	10.10.10.10
Incipit:	55533 22111
Key:	F Major
Copyright:	© Lutheran World Federation

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Texts

Come, Let Us Eat

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Alternative Tunes

[Come, let us eat for now the feast is spread]

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Notes

The tune title A VA DE is the incipit of Kwillia's original text in the Loma language. “Come, Let Us Eat” is an excellent choice for congregations that celebrate communion with various groups of people coming forward to stand or sit around the Lord's Table (in the Old Dutch Reformed manner). The hymn can be sung in a call-and-response manner, with a soloist singing the first line and the congregation responding with the repetition. The congregation can sing easily without books while coming forward. Sing without pauses between stanzas.

Leland B. Sateren (PHH 294) arranged the music for optional singing as a two-part round and harmonized it for Contemporary Worship-4. The round is at two measures, and its second part should be sung by a smaller group in the manner of an echo. The tune itself has two phrases, each of which repeats once. Sing this lively music in unison or as two-part round, and accompany it with guitars, flutes, and especially percussion instruments such as hand drums, woodblocks, or tambourines.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988

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Timeline

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Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

Twenty Hymn Introductions for Organ
Composer/Editor Robert A. Hobby
Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2011) pp. 5
Introductions and Alternate Accompaniments for Organ Volume 4: Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Hymns 442- 502
Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Marissa Bauck; Mark Sedio
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2008) pp. 491
Introductions and Alternate Accompaniments for Piano Volume 4: Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Hymns 442- 502
Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Marissa Bauck; John Carter; John Helgen
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2008) pp. 491
Many and Great: Introductions and Accompaniments for Global Hymns for Organ
Composer/Editor John A. Ferguson
Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2008) pp. 8
Easy Hymn Settings Set 4 General (Communion)
Composer/Editor Michael A. Burkhardt
Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2004) pp. 8
Pull Out the Stops!: Congregational Song Accompaniments for Organ
Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Mark Weiler; Mark Sedio
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2001) pp. 4
Let It Rip! At the Piano 2: Congregational Song Accompaniments Volume 2
Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Eric Vollen
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2000) pp. 4
Partita on Come, Let Us Eat: Theme, 4 Variations and Alternate Accompaniment
Composer/Editor Tim Fields
Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (1998) pp. 12
The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 16: Baptism Holy Communion: A - Aus
Composer/Editors Herbert Gotsch; Peter A. Skaalen
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1983) pp. 45

Organ Solo

Communion Hymns for Organ Volume 2
Composer/Editor Edwin T. Childs
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2012) pp. 18
Hymn Prelude Library Volume One Tunes A: Lutheran Service Book
Composer/Editors Kevin J. Hildebrand; Amanda Husberg
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2012) pp. 5
Augsburg Organ Library Baptism and Communion
Composer/Editors Norma Aamodt-Nelson; Frank Ferko
Published By: Augsburg Fortress (2006) pp. 8
Easy Hymn Settings Set 4 General (Communion)
Composer/Editor Michael A. Burkhardt
Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2004) pp. 8
Partita on Come, Let Us Eat: Theme, 4 Variations and Alternate Accompaniment
Composer/Editor Tim Fields
Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (1998) pp. 2
Hymn Preludes for Organ
Composer/Editor Frank Ferko
Published By: Augsburg Publishing House (1986) pp. 6
Interpretations Based on Hymn-Tunes Book III: For Organ
Composer/Editor David M. Cherwien
Published By: Summa Productions (1983) pp. 16
The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 16: Baptism Holy Communion: A - Aus
Composer/Editors Herbert Gotsch; Peter A. Skaalen
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1983) pp. 43