Please turn your hymnals to number 143 and join with the clarinets in, “Hark! The Sound of Holy Voices”.
Number: 143
First Line: Hark! The Sound of Holy Voices
Name: DEERHURST.
Meter: 8 7, 8 7. D.
Tempo: In moderate time
Music: James Langran, 1835-1909
Text: Christopher Wordsworth, 1807-85 a.
Clarinet Arrangement: 143-HarkTheSoundOfHolyVoices
The harmony on the third stanza of this one is so close for a hymn, I had to go back and double check my work several times. But, yes, that is the way it is written in the hymnal. Don’t know what to tell you. I guess James Langran was a little odd for his time. Either that or it’s typos.
James Langran
Born: November 10, 1835, St. Pancras, London, England.
Died: June 8, 1909, Tottenham, London, England.A pupil of John Calkin, Langran was tutored as organist at St. James’s Church, Edmonton (London). He then served as organist at St. Michael’s, Wood Green (June 1856); Holy Trinity, Tottenham (1859); Parish Church, All Hallows, Tottenham (1870); and St. Paul’s, Tottenham (1870-1909). He was also Instructor to the Training College for Schoolmistresses, Tottenham, from its foundation around 1880, and received a Bachelor of Music degree from Oxford in 1884.
