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CHOIRS OF S. LEONARD’S CHURCH, HYTHE
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NOVEMBER 2021
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Sunday,
7 November 2021
Dear
Choir-members (and parents)
SINGERS’ NEWS
There are some
new faces in our choirs; welcome to you all.
Among the boys Oscar Hanna has joined his older brother Thomas. New girls choir members include Rose Read,
Sophie Ward, Tiana Uren and Amelia Law.
In the bass section Malcolm Gamble has moved to the area from
Chesterfield and is singing in the Boys and Men Choir and the Adult Mixed Choir,
and Joe Yarrow (from Dover) has been assisting the tenors. We are very glad that Michael Galvan (tenor)
is back with us after a time in hospital, and that Pat Chipping has been able
to return after a long break. We look
forward to seeing Eric Bates among the basses again after his operation, though
this will not be before Christmas.
You will probably
also know that a new priest has been appointed to St Leonard’s Church, Rev.
Michael Darkins. He will take up his
position on March 3rd.
Although I have not talked to him in detail, the Archdeacon for the
Ashford area tells me he is very keen on music, and a meeting is planned. The choirs were a major feature in the
description of our parish life to which 8 applicants responded, of which four
were short-listed. Michael was outstanding, I am told.
RECRUITMENT
Before the October half-term
holiday I sent an updated description of the opportunities for singing in our
choirs to seven local primary schools, and I am sure that these were
distributed to parents, which means that over 300 sets of parents were
contacted. I also saw in person 5
classes at Hythe Bay School. We now have
17 girls on the Hythe Girls Choir register, which is good, but only 8 boy
trebles, of which two have little treble voice left and should be singing a
lower part. So it is important for the
present group of choristers (both boys and girls and adults) to keep their ears
and eyes open for potential choir members.
TIMETABLE TO EARLY JANUARY
The Christmas period
is very busy. Please note the
traditional Carols for All concert, involving all the choirs, is on Saturday 18
December, and see the arrangements for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (when
all available singers are encouraged to appear). There is then some time off
until Epiphany (January 9) – ‘We three kings’ and all that! In January the girls sing on the second Sunday,
to fit with school terms.
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NOVEMBER 2021 to 9th JANUARY 2022
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Boys and Men Choir
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Mixed Choir
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Hythe Girls Choir
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NOVEMBER
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Sun 7
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5.30 rehearsal, 6.30 Evensong
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9.30 Eucharist
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Tues 9
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6.00 rehearsal
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Wed 10
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6.30
rehearsal
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7.45
rehearsal
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Sun 14
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5.30 rehearsal, 6.30 Evensong
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9.30 Eucharist
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Tues 16
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6.00 rehearsal
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Wed 17
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6.30
rehearsal
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7.45
rehearsal
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Sun 21
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5.30 rehearsal, 6.30 Evensong
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9.30 Eucharist
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Tues 23
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6.00 rehearsal
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Wed 24
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6.30
rehearsal
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7.45
rehearsal
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Sun 28
ADVENT
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5.30 rehearsal, 6.30
ADVENT CAROLS
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9.30
Eucharist
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Tues 30
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6.00 rehearsal
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DECEMBER
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Wed 1
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6.30
rehearsal
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7.45
NO rehearsal
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Sun 5
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5.30 rehearsal, 6.30 Evensong
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9.30 Eucharist
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Tues 7
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6.00 rehearsal
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Wed 8
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6.30
rehearsal
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7.45
rehearsal
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Sat 18
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CAROLS for ALL
Rehearsal 6.00; concert 7.30 to 8.40
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CAROLS for ALL
Rehearsal 6.00; concert 7.30-8.40
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CAROLS for ALL
Rehearsal 6.00; concert 7.30 -8.40
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Sun 19
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5.30 rehearsal, 6.30 Evensong
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9.30 Eucharist
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Tues 21
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6.00 rehearsal
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Wed 22
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6.30
rehearsal
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7.45
rehearsal
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Christmas Eve Friday 24
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11.00 Carols under Town Hall and The
White Hart
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4pm Crib Service
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Christmas Day Sat 25
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9.30 Sung Eucharist
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9.30 Sung Eucharist
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9.30 Sung Eucharist
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Sun 26
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No choir
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No choir
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No choir
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Tues 28
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6.00 NO rehearsal
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Wed 29
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6.30
NO rehearsal
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7.45
rehearsal
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JANUARY
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Sun 2
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5.30 No rehearsal, or Evensong
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9.30 Eucharist
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Tues 4
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6.00 rehearsal
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Wed 5
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6.30
rehearsal
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7.45
NO rehearsal
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Sun 9
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5.30 rehearsal, 6.30 Epiphany Carols
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No choir at service
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9.30 Eucharist
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MUSIC - November to 12 December
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Date
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7 November
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14 November
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21 November
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28 November
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5 December
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12 December
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Sunday
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3 before Advent
Patronal Festival
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2 before Advent
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Next before Advent
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Advent
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Advent 2
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Advent 3
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HOLY COMMUNION
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Repent
and believe the good news
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Remembrance
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Christ the King
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Advent
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Hythe
Girls Choir
Preparing
the way
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Proclaiming
good news
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Setting
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Oldroyd (Girls Choir)
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Casciolini
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Gibbons
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Darke in F
(No Gloria)
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Pilgrim
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Young
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Introit
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205
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391
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394
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3
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12
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15
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Motet
/ Psalm
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Gloria - Beethoven
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The souls of the righteous -
Marchant
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Laudate Dominum – Pitoni (1/282)
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A tender shoot -Goldschmidt
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I sing of a maiden - Berkeley
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Rejoice in the Lord alway- Redford
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Gradual
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Be
still for the presence of the Lord
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Make me a channel of your peace
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280
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5
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10
(t
OBC 78)
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185
8 (t 128 ii & Amen)
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Offertory
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485
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417
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443
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11
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14
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At
Communion
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Faure – Pie Jesu, and In paradisum
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For the fallen – Irving (1/152)
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Lift up your heads - Handel
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Sleepers
wake (chorus) - Bach
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Song of Peace - Stanford
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How lovely are the messengers -
Mendelssohn
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Post-com’n
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420
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372
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465
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15
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17
(t
42)
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500
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Voluntary
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Mendelssohn
Sonata 6
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St Anne
fugue - Bach
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March
on a theme of Handel - Guilmant
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Sleepers
wake - Peeters
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Sleepers
wake – Karg-Elert
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Overture
‘The Messish’ - Handel
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EVENSONG
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ML
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Psalm
Chant
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46
128
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95
185
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72 vv 1-7, 18,19
239
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Advent Carols
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76
Chant by
Routley
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50 VV 1-6, 22, 23
Plainsong
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Magnificat
Nunc
Dimitis
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91
90
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Stanford
in B flat
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Plainsong
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See separate
sheet
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Chants by
Podushkin
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119
116
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Anthem
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Exsultate justi - Viadana
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Turn back
O man - Holst
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O sing joyfully
- Batten
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How
beautiful upon the mountains - Stainer
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Expectans
expectavi - Wood
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Hymn
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137
431
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417
488
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443
457 (tii)
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12
8 (t 128 ii)
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15
10 (t OBC 78)
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