Hymn for Christmas Day (George Browne Brock)
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- (Posted 2021-11-08) CPDL #66626:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-11-08). Score information: A4, 12 pages, 1.11 MB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
General Information
Title: Hymn for Christmas Day
Composer: George Browne Brock
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem
Language: English
Instruments: Mixed ensemble
First published: 1820
Description: "Hymn for Christmas Day in score, composed and most respectfully dedicated to the choir of Moretonhampstead Church by George Browne Brock, Moretonhampstead, Devon. London. Printed for the Author by Gerock Astor & Co." An elaborate West Gallery-style setting. It is suggested (editorially) that during the choruses the flute, violin and 'cello should double the treble, alto and bass voices respectively.
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Original text and translations
English text
Christians awake, your voices raise
In loud triumphant songs of praise
And hail this happy morn.
Now let your hearts in concert move
And ev'ry voice be tuned by love,
And sing a Saviour's born.
He came to bid our world in peace
And ev'ry fear remove;
To save mankind from sin and woe,
And heav'nly gifts on them bestow,
With blessings from above.
Glory to God who reigns on high,
Let ev'ry voice enraptured cry,
For our Redeemer's birth.
Let ev'ry heart and ev'ry tongue
Proclaim aloud the heav'nly song
Through all the realms of earth.