The Best Of Rooms

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Composer
Charles Wood
Difficulty
Moderately Easy radio_button_checked radio_button_checked radio_button_unchecked radio_button_unchecked radio_button_unchecked
Season
Communion Epiphany (day and season) General
Voicing(s)
2-part
Instruments
Keyboard [organ/piano]
Category
Anthems Anthems with/based on Canons
Collections
Yes, Edith, You May Sing in the Tenor Section
Instrumental Only?
No
Description

Two-part voices (high/low) and organ or piano. A beautiful "canon at the fifth" of the Robert Herrick text by the Anglo-Irish master Charles Wood.

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Lyrics

Christ, He requires still, wheresoe'er He comes
to feed or lodge, to have the best of rooms:
Give Him the choice; grant Him the nobler part
Of all the house: the best of all's the heart.