Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem (1983)

An extended Easter anthem for SSATB choir, organ, brass sextet, and percussion.

Available downloads include choral score (includes brass cues and is NOT the same as the organ score), full score, organ score, and set of parts. Choral scores require a minimum of 12 copies; all others are limited to one copy per order.

Lyrics

Ye choirs of new Je­ru­sa­lem, your sweet­est notes em­ploy,
The Pas­chal vic­to­ry to hymn in strains of hol­y joy.

For Ju­dah’s Li­on bursts His chains, crushing the ser­pent’s head;
And cries aloud through death’s do­mains to wake the im­pri­soned dead.

From hell’s de­vour­ing jaws the prey alone our lead­er bore;
His ran­somed hosts pur­sue their way where Je­sus goes be­fore.

Triumphant in His glo­ry now to Him all pow­er is giv­en;
To Him in one com­mun­ion bow all saints in earth and Hea­ven.

While we, His sol­diers, praise our king, his mer­cy we im­plore,
Within His pa­lace bright to bring and keep us ev­er­more.
—Ful­bert of Chartres (952–1028); tr. Ro­bert Camp­bell (1814-1868), Hymns and An­thems, 1850.