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We have partnered with PageCXVI to bring you their new album, Hymns II. For a limited time, a downloadable version of their first album, Hymns, will be included with every item purchased on ContemporaryHymns.org.

Page CXVI was started with the idea of making hymns accessible and known again. Hymns are some of the richest, most meaningful and moving pieces of music ever written.

The name comes from a reference to page 116 in our copy of The Magician’s Nephewby C.S. Lewis. It is a poignant passage where Aslan begins to sing Narnia into creation out of a black void.

It starts, “In the darkness something was happening at last. A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction is was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. There was hardly even a tune. But it was, beyond comparison, the most beautiful noise he had ever heard. It was so beautiful he could hardly bear it.”
~ C.S. Lewis

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