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2. Amazing Grace - Wikipedia

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   "Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, written in 1772 by English Anglican clergyman and poet John Newton (1725–1807). It is possibly the most sung and most recorded hymn in the world, and especially popular in the United States, where it is used for both religious and secular purposes.

3. New Britain (tune) - Wikipedia

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   The lyrics of John Newton's Amazing Grace are credited to Staunton Burdett's Baptist Harmony (1834). C. M. is common metre. New Britain is a hymn tune which was first published under other names in the early 19th century, including St Mary's, Gallaher, Symphony, Harmony Grove and Solon.

4. The President Sang Amazing Grace - Wikipedia

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   The President Sang Amazing Grace" is a 2016 song written by Zoe Mulford. It was inspired by the Charleston church shooting of 2015. The song recounts the moment when President Barack Obama broke into an impromptu performance of the hymn " Amazing Grace " while delivering the eulogy for Clementa C. Pinckney .

5. The Virginia Harmony - Wikipedia

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   It is one of the earliest known print sources of the tune for "Amazing Grace", given in The Virginia Harmony as "Harmony Grove" and used as a setting for the Isaac Watts hymn "There Is a Land of Pure Delight". [1] The "Amazing Grace" text was not set to this melody until the 1847 Southern Harmony, where the tune was called "New Britain".

6. Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Three versions of Amazing ...

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   Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw (melody), John Newton (lyrics) Creator United States Air Force Band Articles in which this recording appears Amazing Grace (only jazz version) John Newton William Walker (composer) (only instrumental versions) Nominate and support all. TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 18:52, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

7. Amazing Grace (Aretha Franklin album) - Wikipedia

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   Amazing Grace is a live album by American singer Aretha Franklin. It was recorded in January 1972 at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles , with Reverend James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir accompanying Franklin in performance.

8. Metre (hymn) - Wikipedia

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   The hymn "Amazing Grace" exemplifies a standard form, with a four-line stanza, in which lines with four stressed syllables alternate with lines with three stressed syllables; stressed syllables are rendered in bold. Amazing 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.

9. Amazing Grace (musical) - Wikipedia

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   Amazing Grace is a musical with music and lyrics by Christopher Smith and a book by Smith and Arthur Giron. [1] The musical is Smith's first foray as a professional writer or composer. [2] [3] It is based loosely on the life of John Newton, an English slave trader who later became an Anglican priest and eventually an abolitionist.