A Joyous Easter Hymn

Author: J. W. Neale

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Text Information

First Line: Joy dawns again on Easter Day
Title: A Joyous Easter Hymn
Author: J. W. Neale
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
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Tune

PUER NOBIS NASCITUR

PUER NOBIS is a melody from a fifteenth-century manuscript from Trier. However, the tune probably dates from an earlier time and may even have folk roots. PUER NOBIS was altered in Spangenberg's Christliches GesangbUchlein (1568), in Petri's famous Piae Cantiones (1582), and again in Praetorius's (P…

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LASST UNS ERFREUEN

LASST UNS ERFREUEN derives its opening line and several other melodic ideas from GENEVAN 68 (68). The tune was first published with the Easter text "Lasst uns erfreuen herzlich sehr" in the Jesuit hymnal Ausserlesene Catlwlische Geistliche Kirchengesänge (Cologne, 1623). LASST UNS ERFREUEN appeared…

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Instances

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The Chapel Choir Book #23

The Chapel Choir Book #23

The Methodist Hymnal #157

The Methodist Hymnal #157
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