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Easter
Staff Notation • Secular, Partsongs
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Easter by Henry Kimball Hadley — Lyrics
There’s a music up in the frozen hills,
A gently exultant harmony:
It rises and falls with a thousand trills,
And all the earth with its gladness fills;
And fountains and rivers, and lakes and rills
Are laughing aloud, “We are free!”
Arise from your darksome bed and see
That winter and death are past and ye are free,
O, ye flowers, are free!
A spirit hath come to the sleeping earth,
She has softly kissed the lifeless snow
With radiant lips and has given birth
To a manyvoiced gurgling mirth.
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About Easter
Henry Kimball Hadley’s Easter paints a vibrant sonic picture of spring’s arrival. The text overflows with the exultant spirit of nature awakening, from frozen hills to laughing streams and blooming flowers. This SATB setting in English captures this sense of joyous liberation, describing the earth’s rebirth after winter’s slumber. Hadley’s choral writing here evokes a sense of the earth’s revitalizing energy and the
