Tag: Easter Sunday

This Joyful Eastertide (VREUCHTEN) – for eight handbells

Here’s a triumphant hymn for Easter Sunday (and all year round!) from the seventeenth century. You’ll enjoy playing our eight-bell arrangement to celebrate the Resurrection! This joyful Eastertide, away with sin and sorrow! My Love, the Crucified, has sprung to life this morrow: Had Christ, who once was slain, not burst His three-day prison, our …

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Now the Green Blade Riseth/Sing We Now of Christmas (NOEL NOUVELET) – for six handbells and piano

Here’s a brand new earworm for you – it’s the French tune NOEL NOUVELET in 7/8 meter. There are two hymn titles associated with the melody (Sing We Now of Christmas and Now the Green Blade Riseth), so you can play this two times each year! Now the green blade rises from the buried grain, …

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O Little Town of Bethlehem (FOREST GREEN) – for six handbells plus piano

his Christmas carol reflects the quiet joy of the Savior’s birth. O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by. Yet in thy dark streets shineth the everlasting Light; the hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight. …

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