For the Beauty of the Earth: notes for 8 instruments
“For the beauty of the earth…” Pick your instrument. Each page shows the notes in the easiest key that fits it, with a play-along player and a print sheet.
- PianoLetters · C majorG4–G5 Medium
- KalimbaTabs · C majorG4–G5 Medium
- RecorderLetters · G majorD4–D5 Medium
- FluteLetters · C majorG4–G5 Medium
- ViolinLetters · C majorG4–G5 Medium
- ClarinetLetters · C major (written)G3–G4 Medium
- TrumpetValves · F major (written)C4–C5 Medium
- Alto SaxLetters · G major (written)D4–D5 Medium
Not on bells & xylophone, harmonica: no key keeps every note on those instruments without sharps, flats or bends.
Words (first verse)
For the beauty of the earth For the glory of the skies,
For the love which from our birth Over and around us lies.
Lord of all, to Thee we raise, This our hymn of grateful praise.
About this song
- Melody
- Tune DIX, Conrad Kocher, 1838
- Words
- Folliot Sandford Pierpoint (1835–1917), 1864 (first verse shown; all verses on HymnKeys)
- Public domain
- Melody 1838, words 1864: first published before 1931.
- Source
- Open Hymnal Project file marked public domain, via HymnKeys