Gabriel’s message does away (Anonymous)
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- (Posted 2022-03-13) CPDL #68393:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2022-03-13). Score information: A4, 1 page, 43 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The carol with harmony and underlaid words in the version published in The Hymnal 1982.
- (Posted 2022-03-13) CPDL #68392:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2022-03-13). Score information: A4, 1 page, 88 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The carol in the version published in The Hymnal 1982, melody with words.
General Information
Title: Gabriel’s message does away
Composer: Anonymous
Tune: Angelus emittitur
Lyricist:
- Translation by John Mason Neale
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol Meter: 777. with refrain
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard
First published: 1582
Description: Words and music from Piae cantiones, 1582, harmonised by Richard Runciman Terry
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Original text and translations
English text
Gabriel’s message does away
Satan’s curse and Satan’s sway,
out of darkness brings our Day:
(Refrain:) so, behold, all the gates of heaven unfold.
He that comes despised shall reign;
he that cannot die, be slain;
death by death its death shall gain: (Refrain)
Weakness shall the strong confound;
by the hands, in grave clothes wound,
Adam’s chains shall be unbound: (Refrain)
Art by art shall be assailed;
to the cross shall Life be nailed;
from the grave shall hope be hailed: (Refrain)