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Christ is alive, with joy we sing

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Author: Pamela Stotter

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Text Information

First Line: Christ is alive, with joy we sing
Author: Pamela Stotter
Meter: 8.8.8 with refrain
Language: English
Publication Date: 1999
Copyright: Words from "Australian Catholic Worship Book" by permission of P. Stotter

Tune

CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN (Vulpius)

Melchior Vulpius (PHH 397) composed this short chorale tune, published as a setting for the anonymous funeral hymn "Christus, der ist mein Leben" ("For Me to Live Is Jesus") in Vulpius's Ein Schön Geistlich Gesangbuch (1609). Johann S. Bach (PHH 7) based his Cantata 95 on this tune and provided two…

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