Make wide the door, unbar the gate

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Make wide the door, unbar the gate

Author: N. J. Hom
Tune: VOM HIMMEL HOCH
Published in 2 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Easy Organ Library, Vol. 52

Choral
	From Heaven Above to Earth I Come - (Cho…

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	O Come, Emmanuel: Six Advent and Christm…

Author: N. J. Hom

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First Line:	Make wide the door, unbar the gate
Author:	N. J. Hom

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VOM HIMMEL HOCH

Initially Luther used the folk melody associated with his first stanza as the tune for this hymn. Later he composed this new tune for his text. VOM HIMMEL HOCH was first published in Valentin Schumann's Geistliche Lieder in 1539. Johann S. Bach (PHH 7) used Luther's melody in three places in his wel…

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