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O Little Town of Bethlehem: alto part

The alto part of O Little Town of Bethlehem in G, from B3 to A4. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Sings the words under the tune, mostly a sixth below it, most often on D, up to its top A only on the first syllable of "dreamless" in verse 1, "human" in verse 3 and "enter" in verse 4, and down to its low B six times a verse: on the second note of each even line ("still", "si-", "ev-" and "met" in verse 1, "won-", "bless-", "in" and "dear" in verse 3, "scend", "born", "great" and "Lord" in verse 4) and on the last syllable of the fourth and last lines ("by;" and "night.", "heav'n." and "in.", "day." and "el!").

Range
B3 to A4
Key
G
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About O Little Town of Bethlehem

Words: Phillips Brooks (1868)

Tune: Lewis H. Redner, "St. Louis" (1868)

O Little Town of Bethlehem is Phillips Brooks's carol to the tune St. Louis by Lewis H. Redner. Its earliest known printing with Redner's tune is in The Church Porch, a Sunday-school service book and hymnal published in New York in 1874, where one note of the tune differs from the later form we sing: B, not D, on "and" in "deep and dreamless". Our arrangement is read from Redner's four parts in Charles L. Hutchins's Carols Old and Carols New, printed in Boston in 1916, in G as printed: the soprano sings his tune, and the lower parts are adapted for beginners. This is verses 1, 3 and 4 of the four the book prints, for 2 to 4 singers: the sleeping town, the silent gift, and the prayer to the holy Child.

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