Evening Hymn

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Composer
Josef Rheinberger
Difficulty
Moderately Difficult radio_button_checked radio_button_checked radio_button_checked radio_button_checked radio_button_unchecked
Season
General Holy Week Funerals/Memorials
Voicing(s)
SATB+
Instruments
Unaccompanied [a cappella]
Category
Anthems Evening Service
Collections
So, You Have a Cathedral Choir!
Instrumental Only?
No
Description

The Josef Rheinberger classic in a wonderful new English translation. SSATBB a cappella. This piece is ideal for an Evening service, and would also work well as a funeral anthem.

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Lyrics

Bide with us, O Lord, the day is ended, and the evening shadows deepen, the day is ended;
For our labors now are over and the busy world is hushed.
Bide with us, and grant us peace, Amen.