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.