Product Description
This joyful anthem for
four-part mixed chorus is especially appropriate in the season of after
Christmas when Christians celebrate Christ as the source of spiritual light,
and for the commemorations of Jesus Transfiguration (August 6 and on the last
Sunday after the Epiphany). It works equally well in any joyous season.
It is based on a hymn by
Philipp Nicolai, a Lutheran pastor born in 1556, just ten years after the death
of Martin Luther. As a part of the generation following Luther, he helped shape
the popular hymnody of the period. His hymn "O Morning Star, How Fair and
Bright" marks a transition from the churchly hymns of Luthers time to the
emphasis on an individual relationship with Jesus-exemplified here by the writersemphasis
on Christ as the bridegroom of the soul.
This 3-verse anthem employs a
different rhythm for each stanza. The triple meter second verse has a joyous, dance-like
quality that befits the wedding feast and expresses the elation implicit in the
words "Then strike the chords of harp and lute; let no sweet music now be mute."
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