SAB, Two Flutes, Percussion (Tambourine Finger Cymbals, and Suspended Cymbal), and Handbells (2 Octaves—10 Bells).
Bishop Heber's text "Brightest and Best" with traditional folk-tune, STAR IN THE EAST, combines actual harmonies of early American shape-note hymn with bell dissonances plus percussion, producing stark, archaic, foreign sound. Handbells (2 Octaves—10 Bells) and Percussionists play from choir score.