Easter Brass
FOR BRASS QUINTET, TIMP, AND ORGAN
Thaxted
FOR STRINGS, OBOE, HORN, TIMP, AND ORGAN
Text by Michael Perry
Toulon
FOR BRASS QUINTET, TIMP, AND ORGAN
For ordinations and church anniversaries, with updated text
FOR BRASS QUINTET, TIMP, AND ORGAN
FOR STRINGS, OBOE, HORN, TIMP, AND ORGAN
Text by Michael Perry
FOR BRASS QUINTET, TIMP, AND ORGAN
For ordinations and church anniversaries, with updated text
FOR BRASS QUINTET, TIMP, AND ORGAN
FOR STRINGS, OBOE, HORN, TIMP, AND ORGAN
Text by Michael Perry
FOR BRASS QUINTET, TIMP, AND ORGAN
For ordinations and church anniversaries, with updated text
Descant to the hymn tune ST ALBINUS. Audio: hymnal verse - harmonized descant.Free score.
Henry Gauntlett composed a vast number of hymn tunes, of which ST ALBINUS is one. (Another, notably, is IRBY – Once in royal David's city). Published in 1852, ST ALBINUS was set to a now-fogotten text "Angels to our jubilee." In his original, the dotted note comes on the fifth note, rather than - as now - on the third beat, which has become a signature of this well-regarded tune, which spans the full extent of the traditional tessitura of a normal congregation, from B♭ 3 to E♭ 5 . The Easter hymn Jesus lives, thy terrors now is a translation - used with some creative license due to language differences - of Christian Gellert's Jesus lebt, mit ihm auch ich. Gellert was a professor of philosophy at Leipzig, with a career overlapping the life (and tenure at the Thomaskirche) of J.S. Bach. The text is from a 1757 collection of hymns, over 54 of which were penned by Gellert. The translation by Frances Cox appeared first in 1841, in a volume of hymns translated from the German. The first instance of this now inseparable combination first appeared in Hymns for the Church of Christ (Third Thousand) in 1853.
Jesus lives, thy terrors now
Descant verse:
Jesus lives! to him the throne
over all the world is given:
may we go where he has gone,
rest and reign with him in heaven.
Alleluia!
– Christian Furchtegott Gellert, 1714-1769
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