Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts
Henry Purcell
Choose your part: hear the opening with it lifted out of the choir, then practise it in the app. Free, and without an account.
- Voicing
- SATB
- Key
- G minor
- Time
- 4/2
- Tempo
- quarter note = 100
- Length
- 26 bars
The parts
The opening, 16 bars, on the app's piano: your part clearly, the others quietly.
Soprano part
Range
Lowest D4Highest F5
Alto part
Range
Lowest B3Highest B♭4
Tenor part
Range
Lowest G3Highest F4
Bass part
Range
Lowest G2Highest D4
Not sure which part you sing? Test your range
With a free account, the app plays the parts sung.
The words
Verse 1
Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts; shut not, shut not thy merciful ears unto our prayer; but spare us, Lord, spare us, Lord most holy, o God, o God most mighty, o holy and most merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not, suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death, for any pains of death, to fall, to fall from thee. Amen.
Free to sing: Henry Purcell died in 1695.
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