Christ the Lord Is Risen" Today is a Christian hymn
associated with Easter. Most of the stanzas were
written by Charles Wesley, and the hymn appeared under
the title Hymn for Easter Day in Hymns and Sacred Songs
by Charles and John Wesley in 1739. It remains a
traditional processional hymn on Easter Sunday.
The hymn is a variation of an earlier hymn Jesus Christ
Is Risen Today, a 14th-century Latin hymn which had
been translated into English and published in Lyra
Davidica in 1708 (and l...(+)
Christ the Lord Is Risen" Today is a Christian hymn
associated with Easter. Most of the stanzas were
written by Charles Wesley, and the hymn appeared under
the title Hymn for Easter Day in Hymns and Sacred Songs
by Charles and John Wesley in 1739. It remains a
traditional processional hymn on Easter Sunday.
The hymn is a variation of an earlier hymn Jesus Christ
Is Risen Today, a 14th-century Latin hymn which had
been translated into English and published in Lyra
Davidica in 1708 (and later in 1749 in Arnold's
Compleat Psalmodist). In some hymnals, Jesus Christ Is
Risen Today is in fact the 3 stanza Compleat Psalmodist
version with one or more of the additional stanzas
written by Wesley appended.
I created this simplified arrangement from the United
Methodist Hymnal (No. 302) for the Sierra Vista United
Methodist Church (SVUMC) in Sierra Vista, Arizona. The
piece covers just overa single octave and is is
octave-doubled for each member of the Children's
Handbell Choir and voice choir (SATB). The purpose of
this arrangement is to introduce the children to the
basic concepts of ringing, note reading, timing and
teamwork.
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