A Processional for Advent
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For Unison voices (in canon), handbells, and percussion. This is an easy-to-learn and easy-to-memorize processional for use anytime in Advent.
The melody can be sung as a canon for three voices (or voices and C instruments.) The percussion parts are given as suggestions only and players are encouraged to improvise. The director is encouraged as well to be creative in the combinations of participants and in the numbers of players or singers participating at any given time.
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Come, Thou Redeemer of the earth,
and manifest thy holy birth,
Let every age adoring fall,
Such birth befits the God of All.