Their Bodies Are Buried In Peace

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Composer
George Friedrich Handel
Arranger
Crawford R. Thoburn
Difficulty
Moderately Easy radio_button_checked radio_button_checked radio_button_unchecked radio_button_unchecked radio_button_unchecked
Season
Funerals/Memorials All Saints
Voicing(s)
SAB
Instruments
Keyboard [organ/piano]
Category
Anthems
Instrumental Only?
No
Description

SAB and Organ. A piece by the Baroque master for All Saints Day or Sunday, funerals or memorials, arranged for SAB Choir by Crawford Thoburn. Do the short version (4 pages) or the extended version. A solemn, slow, homophonic section in minor (Their bodies are buried in peace...) followed by joyful polyphony in major (But their name liveth evermore!) The shorter version is recorded.

Text from Ecclesiasticus 44:15

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Lyrics

Their bodies are buried in peace.
But their name liveth evermore.