Robe Yourself with Joy and Gladness--Choral Octavo is currently unavailable

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Choral Choir (SATB) - Digital Download SKU: A0.829324 Composed by Text: Johann Franck / Translated by John Mattes / Music by Lyndell Leatherman. Sacred. Octavo. 11 pages. Leatherman Music Services #5749601. Published by Leatherman Music Services (A0.829324). This is a sacred SATB choral piece (with some divisi on the big ending) which can be accompanied by either piano or organ, or both. It's suitable for any celebration of the Eucharist, but especially during Advent. With some allusions to the Parable of the Ten Wise and Foolish Virgins, it would also be thematically congruent with an emphasis on the Second Coming. Approximately 3:10 in duration. A Piano/Organ Duet edition will be posted separately on Sheet Music Plus.   Here are some program notes:   Johann Franck (1618-1677) was born in Guben, Germany, the son of a lawyer. Like his father, Johann studied law at the University of Konigsburg, where–in addition to his studies–he developed a warm friendship with a group of hymnists and poets. Returning home, he began his law practice and eventually became mayor of Guben. As an avocation, the Lutheran politician wrote poems–and soonbecame known as one of the leading hymnists of his time, ranked only behind Gerhard. He is credited for the creation of a group of so-called "Jesus hymns," building the foundation for the pietistic hymn movement that would later sweep through Europe. Franck once wrote that poetry should be "the nurse of piety, the herald of immortality, the promoter of cheerfulness, the conqueror of sadness, and a foretaste of heavenly glory." Indeed, his hymns echoed his own spirit of encouragement.Lyndell Leatherman (1953-   ) was born into a Nazarene parsonage in southeast Kansas. After studying church music and composition at Olivet Nazarene University (Kankakee, Illinois) and Illinois State University (Bloomington-Normal, Illinois), he launched into a life of music ministry. Since 1977 he has enjoyed a diverse career as church musician, editor, accompanist, and composer–placing choral and instrumental compositions with nine different publishers. In 1998 he became aware of Franck’s eucharistic / Advent hymn, translated either "Deck Thyself with Joy and Gladness" (Mattes) or "Deck Thyself, My Soul, with Gladness" (Winkworth). Because the text was unique in its unusually exultant treatment of the sacrament of holy communion, Lyndell felt that the hymn was worthy of renewed consideration in the third millennium of Christian worship. So he updated the language and gave it the new musical setting used here.   *********************** If you are curious about other resources that I am making available as I am sheltering in place here in May, 2020, please navigate to my publisher page here on SMP < https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/leatherman-music-services/16718>;; or slip over to my Facebook site <https://www.facebook.com/leathermanmusicservices>;;, where you can see and hear more of my published works. Thanks for your interest!  Lyndell Leatherman, ASCAP This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard’s global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds. About Digital Downloads Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music, you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and you don’t have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play! PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).