Guide for Wondrous Love

Performance Insights

(click title to view and hear online)

Excellent literature for 6th grade.

Part I -- male and/or female treble.

Part II -- male treble/cambiata I.

If adolescent baritones are present, they may find success singing Part I, 8va lower.

This early American work is one of the the best known of the many tunes included in The Sacred Harp. Its haunting modal melody will leave the singers with an earworm. (An ear worm is a tune that replays over and over in your head).

Consult the two-part variable voicing chart to see the other voicing options that are available.

Words attributed to Alexander Meads

Music: James Christopher (1840)

Voicing: Two-part Variable with Piano

Arranger: Don L. Collins

Cambiata Press Catalog #S97685

This work is available in E-Print.

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It is illegal to purchase a single oactavo, then photocopy it.

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---- ATTENTION PLEASE ----

When you click the title of this song you will be able to access an engraved copy of the piece. When the new page appears, if you haven't already downloaded the scorch plug-in, you will be asked to do so. This plug-in gives you access to all the scores on the Cambiata Press website. After the music appears on your screen, there are TWO WAYS to view and hear it:

1. Click the "play" icon and you will hear the piece played electronically, and as it plays, the cursor will lead your vision through the piece.

2. Click the "Hear Choir Audio" link (upper right hand corner) to hear a choral ensemble sing the piece. Use the Sibelius "page" icon to move the pages of the engraved copy manually as you listen. Do not click the "play" icon while the ensemble is singing or you will hear both renditions simultaneously.

The choral rendition is sung by the Cambiata Singers

from the Arkansas Boys Choir

Don L. Collins, Director