% Version 1.0 % Last edit: March 24, 2006 % The music and words produced by this source code are believed % to be in the public domain in the United States. The source % code itself is covered by the Creative Commons Attribution- % NonCommercial license, % http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ % Attribution: Geoff Horton \version "2.8.0" \include "english.ly" #(set-default-paper-size "letter") #(set-global-staff-size 20) title = "Amazing Grace" % composer = \markup \italic "Virginia Harmony" composer = "Virginia Harmony" poet = "John Newton" translator = "vs. 5 attr. John Reese" meter = "C.M." arranger = "harm. Edwin O. Excell" piece = "New Britain" world = { \key g \major \time 3/4 \partial 4*1 } melody = \relative c' { \world \autoBeamOff d4 | g2 b8[ g] | b2 a4 | g2 e4 | d2 d4 | g2 b8[ g] | b2 a4 | d2 b4 | % line 1 d4.( b8) d8[ b] | g2 d4 | e4.( g8) g[ e] | d2 d4 | g2 b8[ g] | b2 a4 | g2 \bar "|." } alto = \relative c' { \world b4 | b2 d4 | d2 c4 | b2 c4 | b2 b4 | b2 d4 | d2 d4 | d2 d4 | % line 1 d2 d4 | d2 d4 | c4.( d8) c4 | b2 d4 | b2 d4 | d2 c4 | b2 } tenor = \relative c' { \world g4 | d2 g4 | g2 fs4 | g2 g4 | g2 g4 | d2 g4 | g2 fs4 | g2 g4 | % line 1 b4.( g8) b[ g] | g2 g4 | g2 e8[ g] | g2 g4 | g2 g8[ b] | g2 fs4 | g2 \bar "|." } bass = \relative c { \world g4 | g2 g8[ b] | d2 d4 | e2 c4 | g2 g4 | g2 g8[ b] | d2 c4 | b2 g4 | % line 1 g'2 g4 | b,2 b4 | c4.( b8) c4 | g2 b4 | e2 d4 | d2 d4 | g,2 } verseOne = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "1. " A -- maz -- ing grace! how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see. } verseTwo = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "2. " 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And grace my fears re -- lieved; How pre -- cious did that grace ap -- pear The hour I first be -- lieved! } \markup { \column { \fill-line { \large \bold \title } % title \fill-line { \caps \piece % piece \caps \composer % composer } \fill-line { \meter % meter \arranger % arranger } } } \score { \context ChoirStaff << \context Staff = upper << \context Voice = sopranos { \voiceOne << \melody >> } \context Voice = altos { \voiceTwo << \alto >> } \context Lyrics = one \lyricsto sopranos \verseOne \context Lyrics = two \lyricsto sopranos \verseTwo >> \context Staff = lower << \clef bass \context Voice = tenors { \voiceOne << \tenor >> } \context Voice = basses { \voiceTwo << \bass >> } >> >> \layout { \context { \Score % **** Turns off bar numbering \remove "Bar_number_engraver" } \context { \Lyrics % **** Prevents lyrics from running too close together \override LyricSpace #'minimum-distance = #0.6 % **** Makes the text of lyrics a little smaller \override LyricText #'font-size = #-1 % **** Moves lines of lyrics closer together \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-1 . 1) } } \midi { \context { \Score tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 80 2) } \context { \Staff midiInstrument = #"church organ" } } } \markup { \normalsize { \fill-line { \hspace #1 \column { \line { "3. " \column { "The Lord has promised good to me" " His word my hope secures;" "He will my shield and portion be" " As long as life endures." } } \hspace #1 \line { "4. " \column { "Through many dangers, toils, and snares" " I have already come;" "́Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far," " And grace will lead me home." } } \hspace #1 \line { "5. " \column { "When we've been there ten thousand years," " Bright shining as the sun," "We've no less days to sing God's praise" " Then when we'd first begun." } } } \hspace #1 } } } \markup { \fill-line { " " \column { \small \caps \poet % poet \small \caps \translator % translator } } } \paper { ragged-bottom = ##t top-margin = 0.25\in bottom-margin = 0.25\in } %{ Per _Worship and Service Hymnal_, #227. In the last verse, the phrase given is "we first begun", but I suspect this is a typo and corrected it. Change log: 3-24-06 New hymn %}