Please turn to number 99 and join with the clarinets in “Christ, the Lord, is Risen Today”.
Number: 99
First Line: Christ, the Lord, is Risen Today
Name: LLANFAIR.
Meter: 7 7, 7 7. With Alleluias.
Tempo: Broadly, with dignity
Music: Robert Williams, cir. 1781-1821
Text: Latin Sequence, Victimae Paschali
Tr. Jane Eliza Leeson, 1807-82
Clarinet Arrangement:099-ChristTheLordIsRisenToday
Unsurprisingly, this song is often confused with number 92, “Jesus Christ is Risen Today“.
However similar the words are, the tunes are quite different. This one is based on a Welsh Folk Tune.
“Llanfair is a popular traditional Welsh hymn tune, often sung to the words “Hail the day that sees him rise” or “Gwyn a gwridog, hawddgar iawn”.
“Welsh singer Robert Williams (b. Mynydd Ithel, Anglesey, Wales, 1781; d. Mynydd Ithel, 1821), whose manuscript, dated July 14, 1817, included the tune LLANFAIR, which is usually attributed to him. Williams lived on the island of Anglesey. A basket weaver with great innate musical ability, Williams, who was blind, could write out a tune after hearing it just once. He sang hymns at public occasions and was a composer of hymn tunes.”
While not as tricky as 98b, there are some fairly challenging intervals to jump in this hymn, especially for the bass clarinet parts.
