Intone the Verses CD Page

This is the first collection of settings of Bahá’í Writings we recorded for community devotional singing. The songs
are all set to passages we had never heard sung before. Songs 1 through 4, Lauded Art Thou, Magnified Be Thy
Name, Purify Me, and No God is There but Thee are designed mainly for the beginning of a meeting (they are
invocations). Songs 5 through 8, Adorn These Children, Let Us See The Light, This is The Day!, and Illumined
by One Sun, could be sung sometime during a meeting. Songs 9 through 15, Day by Day, May All My Intentions,
East and West Together, Boundless Love, Roses of One Garden, Let Us Then Trust, and Our Beloved Faith,
are appropriate for the end of a meeting (they are benedictions) although there are no hard and fast rules. All are
based on the words of Bahá’u’lláh, The Báb, or ‘Abdu'l-Bahá, except for Our Beloved Faith. This setting of words
of Shoghi Effendi should not be included in the spiritual portion of the Feast but would be fine at the end of the
business portion or at devotionals and especially cluster meetings. As all these songs are sung again and again, they
become part of us. The words express many of the most sublime thoughts and ideals found in the Bahá’í writings
and should help us all feel a sense of reverence and appreciation for the guidance we have been given by God. They
also have musical diversity having been written in various cultural styles. The first five songs are prayers.

Ron Lyles and I recorded the songs intending that they sound like a small group of friends singing together, so please
join right in with us!

Wendy Scott (2007)

Intone...the Verses of God CD
Title taken from Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 294

30 Tracks: Tracks 1 through 15 -
vocals by Wendy Scott and Ron Lyles
Tracks 16 through 30 - instrumentals only
Price: $13.50
CD runs 76 min. 87 sec.
Please click on the arrow in the player below to hear samples from the CD.