The Lord Bless You and Keep You
Peter Lutkin's choral blessing of 1900, for 4 singers, in his own four parts: the words from Numbers, slow and smooth, then his sevenfold Amen, where the voices come in one by one and build to a loud peak before a soft last chord.
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Words: Numbers 6:24 to 26 (King James Version), as Lutkin set themTune: Peter C. Lutkin (1900)
The Lord bless you and keep you,the Lord lift His countenance upon you;and give you peace,and give you peace,the Lord make His face to shine upon you,and be gracious unto you,be gracious,the Lord be gracious,gracious unto you.
About The Lord Bless You and Keep You
The Lord Bless You and Keep You is Peter C. Lutkin's choral blessing of 1900, set to the words of Numbers 6:24 to 26 in the King James Version. Lutkin was the first dean of Northwestern University's School of Music. Our arrangement is read from his own printing of 1900, in C, with every pitch as he wrote it, and checked against The Methodist Hymnal of 1905, where it is No. 748. It is for 4 singers: the blessing sung together, slow and smooth, then his sevenfold Amen, where the tenor comes in first, then the bass, the alto and the soprano, rising to the soprano's high G.
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