Their Bodies are Buried in Peace Top Pick

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SATB Choir and Organ. From The Ways of Zion do Mourn/Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline (HWV 264), an anthem in twelve parts. No. 9, Their Bodies Are Buried in Peace, quotes the music of Jacob Handl's setting of Ecce quomodo moritur justus. The original is twice as long, the Grave section offering some little variation, but the Allegro section quoted verbatim.

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Their bodies are buried in peace,
but their name liveth evermore.

Sirach 44:13