This joyful Eastertide (Anonymous)

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• (Posted 2022-02-04)  CPDL #67895:       

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2022-02-04).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 66 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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

• (Posted 2022-02-04)  CPDL #67894:       

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2022-02-04).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 204 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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

• (Posted 2017-12-05)  CPDL #47893:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-12-05).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 44 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

• (Posted 2011-06-17)  CPDL #23459:   

Editor: Andrew Halladay (submitted 2011-05-02).   Score information: Octavo, 1 page, 651 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Edition conceived for SATB choir. Adapted from "The Cowley Carol Book" edition. arr. Charles Wood

• (Posted 2007-11-18)  CPDL #15458:         

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2007-11-18).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 38 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Edition based on the Cyber Hymnal. Does not contain any text.

• (Posted 2003-11-20)  CPDL #06110:      (Sibelius 2)

Editor: Andrew Crookall (submitted 2003-11-20).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 30 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Sibelius file retrieved through http://archive.org.

• (Posted 1999-12-01)  CPDL #00581:     

Editor: Christopher Braginetz (submitted 1999-12-01).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 120 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: arr. Charles Wood.

General Information

Title: This joyful Eastertide
Composer: Anonymous
Arranger: Charles Wood
Lyricist: George Ratcliffe Woodward, in Carols for Easter and Ascensiontide, 1894

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: Tune: Easter-Tide, from David’s Psalmen, Amsterdam, Holland: 1685.

External websites:

• Free choir training aids for this work are available at Choralia.
• Cyber Hymnal entry for this tune

Original text and translations

English text

This joyful Eastertide,
Away with sin and sorrow!
My Love, the Crucified,
Hath sprung to life this morrow.

Had Christ, that once was slain,
Ne'er burst his three-day prison,
Our faith had been in vain:
But now hath Christ arisen,
arisen, arisen, arisen.

My flesh in hope shall rest,
And for a season slumber:
Till trump from east to west
Shall wake the dead in number.

Had Christ, that once…

Death's flood hath lost his chill,
Since Jesus cross'd the river
Lover of souls, from ill
My passing soul deliver.

Had Christ, that once …