Consolation - Holyoke, Samuel

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"Words amended and augmented by an unknown author from various hymns by Isaac Watts, 1707-1709 (see below). These stanzas apparently first appeared in ''The Book of Common Prayer'' published in Philadelphia in 1790. Holyoke set three stanzas."

⌛ Period → Classical ◈ Genre → Set pieces

♯ Key B- major

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Beginner

↕ Range A2 – E-5

¶ Language → English

Measures 50

Texture mixed texture

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 1

CPDL # 53934

Editor Barry Johnston

Posted 2019-04-10

License Public Domain

♫Pitch Ranges

Tr.

F#4 – E-5

B-3 – A4

G3 – F4

A2 – B-3

¶Lyrics / Text

1. Hear what the voice from heaven declares To those in Christ who die! Released from all their earthly cares, They reign with him on high. 2. Then why lament departed friends, Or shake at death's alarms? Death's but the servant Jesus sends to call us to his arms. 3. If sin he pardoned, we're secure, Death hath no sting beside; The law gave sin its strength and power; But Christ, our ransom, died! 4. The graves of all his saints he blessed, when in the grave he lay; And, rising thence, their hopes he raised to everlasting day! 5. Then joyfully, while life we have, to Christ, our life, we'll sing, Where is thy victory, O grave? And where, O death, thy sting?