America The Beautiful (choir harp and organ)
Sheet Music – SATB
This is a beautiful, but simple arrangement for a choir with harp and organ arrangement.
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This is a beautiful, but simple arrangement for a choir with harp and organ arrangement.

This is a an arrangement based on a common LDS hymnal and other similar type songbooks, arranged for a choir withe enhanced accompaniment.

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Lyrics
Oh, beautiful, for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!

America! America!
God shed his grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.

Oh, beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!

America! America!
God mend thine ev’ry flaw
Confirm thy soul in self control,
Thy liberty in law.

Oh, beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!

America! America!
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev’ry gain divine.

Oh, beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities glean,
Undimmed by human tear!

America! America!
God shed his grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.

Shining sea.


Lyricist: Katherine Lee Bates
     American songwriter. She is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem “America the Beautiful”. She popularized “Mrs. Santa Claus” through her poem Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride
Composer: Samuel A. Ward
     Studied music in New York and became an organist at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark in 1880. He is remembered for his hymn tune “Materna” (1882). Ward had originally written “Materna” for the hymn “O Mother dear, Jerusalem” in 1882, though it was not first published until 1892. Ward’s music combined with the Bates poem was first published in 1910 and titled “America the Beautiful”, with words by Katharine Lee Bates. However, Ward never met Bates. He died in 1903 in Newark and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
Arranger: Donna Howard
     Donna Howard loves the performance arena of music. She loves to play in jazz bands, dance bands, orchestras, and musicals. Also trained under Wilson Brown, she learned many of the techniques of high quality performance and music.
     Pursuing her degree in music she also found great interest in the theory of music. Using these skill and working together, Donna and Daris were able to go through the songs written for the musical and refine them making the finished product much better.
     In the musical Lilacs in the Valley her arranging style can be felt in songs like It Ain’t Much But It’s Home and Walkin’ Along.