Easter Brass
FOR BRASS QUINTET, TIMP, AND ORGAN
Thaxted
FOR STRINGS, OBOE, HORN, TIMP, AND ORGAN
Text by Michael Perry
Toulon
FOR BRASS QUINTET, TIMP, AND ORGAN
For ordinations and church anniversaries, with updated text
Descant to the hymn tune DARWALL's 148th. Free score with: prologue | bridge | harmonized descant. Free score.
The author of "Ye holy angels bright", Richard Baxter (1615-1692), was a poet and cleric - serving Oliver Cromwell at one point as a regimental chaplain, and then upon the Restoration, was appointed chaplain to the throne; he was subsequently offered the bishopric of Hereford, which he declined. He finished his career as a "nonconformist minister," a kind of freelance lecturer or speaker, not in holy orders and without a parish. The text appeared in his work, Poetical Fragments, which was expanded three times, then followed by a supplement.
John Darwall (1731–1789) was an English clergyman and hymnodist best known for his setting of Psalm 148, known as Darwall's 148th, which was sung at the inauguration of a new organ at his church in Walsall, England, UK. The first publication was in the New Universal Psalmodist (1770) with only soprano and bass parts - which is not as unusual as it might appear. At that time, many organists were able to read a figured bass, filling in the tenor and alto on sight. A written-out harmonization would have to wait until after the turn of the century.
For James Higbe, 2005.
Updated: October 2019 (changes to introduction only / no changes to any descant verse 9.2.2 or above)
Descant verse:
My soul, bear thou thy part, triumph in God above:
and with a well-tuned heart sing thou the songs of love!
let all thy daystill life shall end,
whate'er he send,be filled with praise.
– Richard Baxter, 1681
Wesley text - Rejoice, the Lord is King.
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