Let us now our voices raise (Jan Roh)

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(Posted 2022-03-12) CPDL #68355:

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2022-03-12). Score information: A4, 1 page, 50 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: The hymn with harmony and underlaid words in the version published in The Hymnal 1982.

(Posted 2022-03-12) CPDL #68354:

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2022-03-12). Score information: A4, 1 page, 93 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in The Hymnal 1982, melody with words.

General Information

Title: Let us now our voices raise
Composer: Jan Roh
Tune: Ave virgo virginum, or Gaudeamus Pariter
Lyricist: Joseph the Hymnographer^{create page}

Translation by John Mason Neale

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 76. 76. D (trochaic)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard

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https://embassysingers.de/scores/hymns.html

Original text and translations

English text

Let us now our voices raise,
wake the day with gladness;
God himself to joy and praise
turns our human sadness;
joy that martyrs won their crown,
opened heaven’s portal,
when they laid the mortal down
for the life immortal.

Never flinched they from the flame,
from the torment never;
vain the tyrant’s sharpest aim,
vain each fierce endeavor:
for by faith they saw the land
decked in all its glory,
where triumphant now they stand
with the victor’s story.

Up and follow, Christians all:
press through toil and sorrow;
turn from fear, and heed the call
to a glorious morrow!
Who will venture on the strife;
who will first begin it?
Who will grasp the land of Life?
Christians, up and win it!