William billings the lord is risen indeed
Christ the lord is risen today!
The Lord Is Risen Indeed
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For SATB Choir.
William billings the lord is risen indeed
A boisterous celebration of the Easter story by colonial composer William Billings.
Performance notes:
“An Anthem for Easter” was originally published in 1787, and it is probably Billings’ most well-known and popular anthem.
It is found in Volume 3 of The Complete Works of William Billings, issued between 1977 and 1990 by The American Musicological Society and The Colonial Society of Massachusetts. In the Introduction to Volume 3, the editor, Hans Nathan, writes at length about this important piece.
“The work appeared in two versions published by Billings himself, one advertised in 1787 and the other, with the addition of a newly composed twenty-four-measure section in the middle, issued in 1795 (p. xxvii).” The entire text is a mixture of Biblical lines together with various lin