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O the Beautiful Treasure: alto part

The alto part of O the Beautiful Treasure in Em, from G3 to G4. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Sings the words a third or a sixth under the tune almost all the time, mostly a third, within one octave, from its low G on "O", "wise," and "prize." in the first strain up to its top G only in the second strain, on "than" and the end of "diamonds", and on "than", "can" and the end of "bestow.".

Range
G3 to G4
Key
Em
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About O the Beautiful Treasure

Words: Shaker song (Mary Hazzard's songbook, about 1849)

Tune: Shaker song (Mary Hazzard's songbook, about 1849)

O the Beautiful Treasure is a Shaker song of the treasure "laid up for the wise", "Far brighter than diamonds on Princes' brow, And richer than royalty can bestow." It survives in Mary Hazzard's manuscript songbook, begun in 1847, where it is headed "Valuable Riches" and signed "Holy Ground", with no giver or date; two pages on comes "Elder Joseph Brackett's Song March 1849". Our tune and words are read from her page, written in the Shakers' notation of letters, a fourth lower, in E minor, with every pitch as written except the octave of the last two notes, on "bestow", which is our choice, and the four parts are our own. This is both strains, each sung twice as the book marks it, for 2 to 4 singers. Courtesy Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.

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