Come sing, ye choirs exultant - Praetorius, Michael

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"Words: translated from 12th-century Latin harmony by George Ratcliffe Woodward, based on Praetorius"

⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre → Hymns

♯ Key G major

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range G2 – D5

¶ Language → English

Measures 17

Texture mixed texture

Parts 3

Instruments A cappella or keyboard

Pages 1

CPDL # 68351

Editor Andrew Sims

Posted 2022-03-12

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Midi_74

G2 – E4

¶Lyrics / Text

Come sing, ye choirs exultant, those messengers of God, through whom the living Gospels came sounding all abroad! Whose voice proclaimed salvation that poured upon the night, and drove away the shadows, and filled the world with light. In one harmonious witness the chosen four combine, while each his own commission fulfills in every line; as, in the prophet’s vision from out the amber flame in mystic form and image four living creatures came. Foursquare on this foundation the Church of Christ remains, a house to stand unshaken by floods or winds or rains. How blest this habitation of gospel liberty, where with a holy people God dwells in Unity.