Composer: Samuel Holyoke
Samuel Holyoke, American composer and teacher of vocal and instrumental music, was the son of Rev. Elizur Holyoke and Hannah Peabody. He was born on 15 October 1762 in Boxford, Massachusetts, in Essex County, and died on 7 February 1820, Concord, New Hampshire, in Merrimack County. He was a Congregationalist and a Mason, and never married.
After preparatory training at at Phillips Academy, Andover Holyoke matriculated at Harvard College in 1786. The source of his musical training is unknown, but he was composed music before he graduated from Harvard in 1789. In 1789-1790, he contributed four secular compositions to Isaiah Thomas’s Massachusetts Magazine. A prolific composer, he composed some 700 pieces, including psalm tunes and anthem…
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This is the day when Christ arose, And triumphed over His hellish foesThis is the day when Christ arose,
And triumph'd o'er his hellish foes;
When he ascended to the sky,
Crown'd with the palm of victory.
Rejoice, my soul, and sing his praise,
proclaim how wond'rous are his ways,
Swell, swell the anthems to his name,
Exalt his works of grace and fame.
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