Easter Anthem (William Billings)

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Editor: Rafael Ornes (submitted 1999-05-28).   Score information: 88 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: revised 07-Apr-2000
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Editor: Michael Lauer (submitted 2007-12-11).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 152 kbytes   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Includes section added after initial publication.

General Information

Title: Easter Anthem
Composer: William Billings

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Anthems

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Sacred Harp, 3rd ed. (1860)

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Original text and translations

text arranged from Edward Young's "The Complaint", or "Night Thoughts", "Night Four", 1741-44

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The Lord is ris'n indeed,
Hallelujah.
Now is Christ risen from the dead,
and become the first fruits of them that slept.
Hallelujah.
And did He rise?
Hear, O ye nations, hear it, O ye dead.
He rose, He burst the bars of death,
He burst the bars of death and triumph'd o'er the grave.
Then I rose,
then first humanity triumphant passed the crystal ports of light,
and seiz'd eternal youth.
Man, all immortal hail, hail,
Heaven, all lavish of strange gifts to man,
Thine's all the glory, man's the boundless bliss.