I heard a voice from heaven

(Musica Deo Sacra, London, 1668)

Revelation 14: 13

Note-values halved
Transposed up a minor third Thomas Tomkins
(1572-1656)

        
Medius (S)
(C1)             
I heard a voice from hea - ven say - ing un - to me:
 
Contratenor (A)
(C3)           
      
I heard a voice from hea - ven say - ing un - to me:
                 
Tenor
(C4)    
 I heard a voice from hea - ven say - ing un - to me:

Bassus     
     
(F4)          
I heard a voice from hea - ven say - ing un - to me:

       
6

              
Write; from hence - forth bless - ed are the dead, bless - ed are the dead, bless -

            
 

  
 
Write; from hence - forth bless - ed are, bless - ed are the dead
     
               
 Write from hence - forth bless - ed are the dead, bless - ed are the dead,

      
           
Write; from hence - forth bless - ed are the dead, bless - ed are the
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     
10

               
- ed are the dead which die in the Lord, which die in the

            
  
which die in the Lord, in the
      
   
 bless - ed are the dead which die in
  
     
dead which die in the

  
13

                     
Lord, in the Lord: ev'n so saith the Spi - rit, ev'n so saith the Spi - rit, the
     
     
 
          
 
Lord, the Lord: ev'n so saith the Spi - rit, so saith the Spi - rit, ev'n so, ev'n so saith the

            
             


  


the Lord: ev'n so saith the Spi - rit, ev'n so saith the Spi - rit, saith the Spi - -
             
 
Lord: ev'n so saith the Spi - rit, ev'n so saith the Spi -

    
17

                  

Spi- rit; for they rest from their la - - bours, for they rest from their

     

 

        

 
  
Spi- rit; for they rest from their la - - - bours, for they rest
 
                   
   

 - rit; for they rest from their la - - bours, for they rest from their la -

           
  
rit; for they rest from their
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    
21
       
           
la - - - bours, for they rest from their la - bours,

            

           



from their la - - bours, la - bours, from their la - - - -
 
          
       
 - bours, they rest from their la - bours, for they rest from their la - bours,
              
  
la - bours, for they rest from their la - - - bours,

  
25
    
              


their la - bours, for they rest from their la - - - bours.

            
    
bours, for they rest from their la - bours, la - bours.
          
        


from their la - bours, their la - bours, for they rest from their la - bours.

      
        
from their la - - bours, from their la - bours.