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COME LET US REASON

COME LET US REASON

Composer: Ken Medema (1971)
Published in 9 hymnals


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: Ken Medema

Ken Medema (b. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1943) is a song writer, composer, recording artist, and story-teller through music. Blind from birth, Ken began playing the piano at age five and studied classical music by reading Braille. He graduated from Grand Rapids Christian High School and studied music therapy at Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan. As a music therapist in both Indiana and New Jersey, he began writing songs for hurting teenagers, an experience that helped to launch a career of writing songs on Christian life that has taken him to venues large and small all over North America and beyond. He responds to what he hears and sees in his heart at particular events, often improvising songs on the spot, offering compassion, h… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: COME LET US REASON
Composer: Ken Medema (1971)
Meter: Irregular
Key: D Major
Copyright: © 1972, Arr. © 1986 Word Music (A Div. of Word, Inc.)

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations: Trombone Counter-melody

  • 61 Trombone Hymns & Counter-Melodies Volume 3
    Composer/Editor Douglas Smith
    Published By: Hope Publishing Company (1996) pp. 70

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations: Trumpet Descant

  • 61 Trumpet Hymns & Descants Volume 3
    Composer/Editor Douglas Smith
    Published By: Hope Publishing Company (1995) pp. 70

Instances

Instances (1 - 8 of 8)
Audio

Baptist Hymnal 1991 #313

Renew! Songs and Hymns for Blended Worship #190

Audio

Sing! A New Creation #57

The Celebration Hymnal #484

The Covenant Hymnal #334

The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration #591

The Worshiping Church #456

찬송과 예배 = Chansong gwa yebae = Come, Let Us Worship #283

Include 1 pre-1979 instance
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