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Nearer, My God, to Thee: the melody (soprano)

The melody of Nearer, My God, to Thee, sung by the soprano, in G, from D4 to E5. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Carries Mason's tune Bethany, calm and even, from the low D on "Nearer" and "That" up to its top E on "all" in "Still all my song" and on the "Nearer" that follows.

Range
D4 to E5
Key
G
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About Nearer, My God, to Thee

Words: Sarah Flower Adams (1841)

Tune: Lowell Mason, "Bethany" (usually dated 1856)

Nearer, My God, to Thee has words by Sarah Flower Adams, who wrote them for the hymn book of William Johnson Fox's chapel in London, in print by 1841, retelling Jacob's dream in Genesis 28, of a ladder between earth and heaven. Some Titanic survivors said the ship's band played it as she sank; others denied it, so no one knows for sure. Its tune, Bethany, is by Lowell Mason, and our arrangement is read from his own four parts in The Sabbath Hymn and Tune Book of 1859, in G as printed. This is the first verse for 2 to 4 singers, calm and even, every line one breath.

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