I created this simplified English Handbell arrangement
for the Sierra Vista United Methodist Church (SVUMC)
from "America the Beautiful" (UMH # 696) an American
patriotic song.
The original lyrics (although not included in this
arrangement) to this beautiful song were written by
Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929), a professor of English
literature at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, after
an inspiring trip to the top of Pikes Peak, Colorado in
1893. Her poem, America the Beautiful first ...(+)
I created this simplified English Handbell arrangement
for the Sierra Vista United Methodist Church (SVUMC)
from "America the Beautiful" (UMH # 696) an American
patriotic song.
The original lyrics (although not included in this
arrangement) to this beautiful song were written by
Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929), a professor of English
literature at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, after
an inspiring trip to the top of Pikes Peak, Colorado in
1893. Her poem, America the Beautiful first appeared in
print in The Congregationalist, a weekly journal, on
July 4, 1895. The music (from a piece named "Materna,")
was composed by Samuel A. Ward in 1882, nearly a decade
before the poem was written.
SHEET MUSIC