20. Come, O Come, and Sweetly Join

Text Information
First Line: Come, O come and sweetly join
Title: Come, O Come, and Sweetly Join
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788
Recaster: John J. Overholt (1971)
Meter: 7.7.7.5.7.7.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1972
Scripture:
Topic: Book One: Hymns, Songs, Chorales; Beginning of Worship: Exhortation to Worship
Copyright: Text Copyright © 1972 by The Christian Hymnary Publishers
Notes: O come, let us sing unto the Lord. Ps. 95:1.
Tune Information
Name: HARMONIE DU BRUDERSTADT
Composer: J. A. Hiller (1817)
Arranger: R. D. Wetzel
Arranger: Compiler (1971)
Meter: 7.7.7.5.7.7.
Incipit: 13215 34543 22
Key: B♭ Major
Copyright: Music from R. D. Wetzel. Arranged by permission.; Arrangement Copyright © 1972 by The Christian Hymnary Publishers
Notes: M.M. 63


Text Information:

Overholt seems to have used other Wesley texts in this recast.

Brackets in text are a printing error on the page in my copy, which I partially interpolated.

Tune Information:

Cannot be Johann Adam Hiller if the 1817 date is correct.


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