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God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
A lively new arrangement for soprano and orchestra of this well-known English Christmas carol.
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God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
soprano solo and orchestra
This pdf download is the full score.
A lively new arrangement for soprano and orchestra of this well-known English Christmas carol. Can be performed with “Il est né le divin enfant” and “Infant Holy, Infant Lowly” as a suite of three international Christmas carols.
Orchestra:
1 picc, 1 fl, 1 ob, 1 Eng. hn, 2 cl, 1 bass cl, 1 bsn, 1 cont. bsn
4 hn, 2 tr, 2 trb, 1 bass trb, 1 tuba
timpani, bells,
harp, strings
Text
God rest you merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay,
For Jesus Christ our Saviour
Was born upon this day,
To save us all from Satan’s power
When we were gone astray:
O tidings of comfort and joy.
From God our heav’nly Father
A blessed angel came,
And unto certain shepherds
Brought tidings of the same,
How that in Bethlehem was born
The Son of God by name:
O tidings of comfort and joy.
The shepherds at those tidings
Rejoiced much in mind,
And left their flocks a-feeding,
In tempest storm and wind,
And went to Bethlehem straightway
This blessed babe to find:
O tidings of comfort and joy.
But when to Bethlehem they came,
Whereat this infant lay,
They found him in a manger,
Where oxen feed on hay;
His mother Mary kneeling,
Unto the Lord did pray:
O tidings of comfort and joy.
Now to the Lord sing praises,
All you within this place,
And with true love and brotherhood
Each other now embrace;
This holy tide of Christmas
All others doth deface:
O tidings of comfort and joy.
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