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This festive arrangement of the tune Straf Mich Nicht has been crafted to complement Ronald Knox’s Eastertide hymn, “Through the Red Sea Brought at Last.” Although the chorale melody was originally composed for a metrical German paraphrase of Psalm 6, it is most commonly sung in the Anglosphere as the setting for Knox’s triumphant retelling of the Ancient Israelites flight from Egypt, the text of which can be read below:
 
Through the Red Sea brought at last, alleluia!
Egypt's chains behind we cast, alleluia!
Deep and wide flows the tide
severing us from bondage past, alleluia!
 
Like the cloud that overhead, alleluia!
through the billows Israel led, alleluia!
By his tomb Christ makes room,
souls restoring from the dead, alleluia!
 
In that cloud and in that sea, alleluia!
Buried and baptized were we, alleluia!
Earthly night brought us light,
which is ours eternally, alleluia!
 
This setting includes an introduction and three settings corresponding to the stanzas printed above. The present scoring includes 2 Trumpets, 2 Trombones, Timpani, Organ, and Soprano Descant. 
 
N.B. It is also possible to perform this work using 2 Trumpets, Horn in F, and Trombone. If this instrumentation is used, the trombonist should read from the Trombone 2 part. Additionally, both Trumpet parts have been prepared for C or B-flat instruments.
 
Your online purchase of this arrangement allows you to print the score and instrumental parts, and you may print as many copies of the descant as you need for your choir.