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Entrance Antiphons for the Pentecost, and Ascension. How Firm a Foundation
Easter Season The arrangement is set for cantor Tune: FOUNDATION (anon.)
Text: Roman Missal and SATB choir, with keyboard ac- Text: “K.” from Rippon’s
Arr. by Maureen Briare companiment. Optional handbells “A Selection of Hymns, 1787)
SATB, cantor, organ, congregation, supplement the arrangement, while Arr. by Tom Trenney
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her Entrance Antiphons for the Easter Sea- worship. ment of the beloved hymn How Firm
son. This brief arrangement provides a Foundation is set for choir and con-
signifi cant fl exibility of instrumenta- gregation. What distinguishes this
tion, and with it the ability to vary arrangement from a plethora of oth-
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material for each Sunday in Easter, duction and interlude, which dances

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