This energetic and joyous setting of the seventeenth-century English tune begins with an easily memorized, four-part processional that may be repeated as needed while ringers approach the handbell tables. Following the processional, the setting of "All Things Bright and Beautiful" features martellato lifts, thumb damps, shakes, and echos.
Woven into the middle of this joyous Christmas anthem is the hymntune, "Lobt Gott, Ihr Christen" by Nikolaus Herman. The text is based on Isaiah 9: 6 and selected verses of Psalms 98. If desired, a C ...