Quiet from God! How Beautiful to Keep in Tonic Solfa
Quiet from God! How Beautiful to Keep in Tonic Solfa to LANGRAN, doh is F: the solfa with the words, staff notation, 5 verses and a piano.
The solfa with the words
| mQui----det-rfrom- | mGod!---show--- |
| fbeau--mti--mful-rto- | dkeep------- |
| mThis---mtrea--rsure,- | sth'All---rmer---- |
| mci--rful-rhath-dgi-- | t,ven;------- |
| dTo---dfeel,-dwhen- | fwe---ma---- |
| swake--mandrwhen-dwe- | t,sleep,------- |
| dIts---rin--dcense- | dround-rus,-mlike-fa- |
| mbreath---rfrom--- | dheaven!------- |
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- Key
- F major
- Doh
- F
- Time
- 4/4
- Starts on
- m (A)
- Range
- t, to s (E to C, a sixth)
- Tune
- LANGRAN
- Words
- Anonymous
- Music
- James Langran
Tune LANGRAN by James Langran (1835–1909); words by Anonymous. Sources and licences.
The solfa line by line
The same solfa as plain text, a line of the hymn at a time, with the words of the first verse under it — easy to copy into your own notes or a message to the choir. To print it, download the solfa as a PDF.
Doh is F · 4/4
Staff notation
The melody on the treble staff in F major, with the first verse under the notes.
The staff is drawn here when you scroll to it.
The words
Quiet from God! how beautiful to keep
This treasure, the All-merciful hath given;
To feel, when we awake and when we sleep,
Its incense round us, like a breath from heaven!
To sojourn in the world, and yet apart;
To dwell with God, and still with man to feel;
To bear about forever in the heart
The gladness which His spirit doth reveal!
Who shall make trouble, then? Not evil minds
Which like a shadow o'er creation lower;
The soul which peace hath thus attuned finds
How strong within doth reign the Calmer's power.
What shall make trouble? Not the holy thought
Of the departed; that will be a part
Of those undying things His peace hath wrought
Into a world of beauty in the heart.
What shall make trouble? Not slow-wasting pain,
Nor even the threatening, certain stroke of death;
These do but wear away, then break, the chain
Which bound the spirit down to things beneath.
How to sing it from the solfa
- Find doh first. Play or hum F and sing d r m f s up from it, so the whole choir has the key in their ears before you start.
- Pitch the first note. The tune starts on m (A).
- Count the time. 4/4 means four crotchet beats in each bar. In the grid every cell is half a crotchet: a dash (–) holds the note before it, and _ is a rest.
- Know the notes. The tune uses d r m f s t. A comma after a note (s,) is the octave below; an apostrophe (d') is the octave above.
New to solfa? Read how to read Tonic Solfa and how to find the doh of a song.
About the hymn
These words were printed without an author's name in A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion, compiled by Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson (Boston, 1848), as hymn 282, “"If He Giveth Quiet, Who Can Make Trouble?"”.
The book printed the words without tunes, marked Tens (10.10.10.10), to be sung to any tune of that metre. This page sets them to LANGRAN; any other Tens tune fits them as well.
- Words: Anonymous
- Music (1861): James Langran (1835–1909)
Tune LANGRAN by James Langran (1835–1909); words by Anonymous.
Sung to the same tune: O, Send Me Not Away! for I Would Drink, Rise, Crowned with Light, Imperial Salem, Rise.
Questions about Quiet from God! How Beautiful to Keep
What is the doh of Quiet from God! How Beautiful to Keep?
In this version, in F major, doh is F. If your choir sings it in another key, doh moves to the new key note and every solfa syllable stays the same — that is what movable doh means.
What note does Quiet from God! How Beautiful to Keep start on?
It starts on m (A in F major). Find doh first, then sing up or down to m.
Is Quiet from God! How Beautiful to Keep in the public domain?
Yes. James Langran died in 1909; the words were in print by 1848 and the music in 1861. Everyone named died before 1955 and both were published before 1929, so the hymn is out of copyright in the UK, the EU, the United States and Nigeria. Modern arrangements and translations can still be under copyright.