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Joan Szymko

Joan Szymko is widely regarded as an outstanding composer of choral music in America today. With a catalog of over 100 choral works in print, her music is sung regularly at choral festivals and competitions across North America and abroad and for nearly two decades has been heard on stage or in sessions at every...

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Hymn of Grateful Praise (SSA)

Name: Hymn of Grateful Praise (SSA)
SKU: JS-052
Availability: InStock

Joan Szymko

A majestic hymn of gratitude, this new setting of the popular Pierpoint text soars.

Choral

treble choir

piano

fall, sacred, secular, spring, summer, winter

Difficulty: 3

Duration: 3-5 min.

JS-052

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Hymn of Grateful Praise

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SSA divisi with Piano

A majestic hymn of gratitude, this new setting of the popular Pierpoint text soars. A rising ritornello: “Lauda, laudate Dominum” contrasts with the hymn verses.

Text

For the beauty of the earth,
For the glory of the skies;
For the love which from our birth,
Over and around us lies;
O Source of all, to Thee we raise
This, our hymn of grateful praise:

Lauda! Laudate Dominum!

For the wonder of each hour,
Of the day and of the night;
Hill and vale and tree and flow’r,
Sun and moon, and stars of light;
O Source of all, to Thee we raise
This, our hymn of grateful praise:

Lauda! Laudate Dominum!

For the joy of ear and eye,
For the heart and mind’s delight;
For the mystic harmony,
Linking sense to sound and sight;
O Source of all, to Thee we raise
This, our hymn of joyful praise:

Lauda! Laudate Dominum!
Lauda! Laudate Dominum!
Lauda! Lauda! Lauda!

– Folliott S. Pierpoint (1835-1917)

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