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It Is Well with My Soul: alto part

The alto part of It Is Well with My Soul in C, from B3 to F#4. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Sings the words mostly a sixth under the tune, mostly on E, and has the C-sharp on "hast" and the F-sharp on "to" in "Thou hast taught me to say".

Range
B3 to F#4
Key
C
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About It Is Well with My Soul

Words: Horatio G. Spafford (1873)

Tune: Philip P. Bliss, "Ville du Havre" (1876)

It Is Well with My Soul has words by Horatio G. Spafford, whose four daughters were killed when the ship Ville du Havre sank in November 1873. His family said he wrote them as his ship passed the place where they died; other accounts put the writing later. Philip P. Bliss named his tune Ville du Havre, after the ship. Its earliest known printing is No. 76 in Gospel Hymns No. 2 (1876), and our arrangement is read from Bliss's four parts on that page, in C, lightly revoiced. This is the first verse and the chorus for 2 to 4 singers, steady and warm: in the chorus the tune holds "well" and "soul" while the others answer beneath it.

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