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Text:Joy Dawned Again on Easter Day
Translator:John Mason Neale
Tune:PUER NOBIS NASCITUR
Adapter:Michael Praetorius
Harmonizer:George R. Woodward

215. Joy Dawned Again on Easter Day

Text Information
First Line: Joy dawned again on Easter Day
Title: Joy Dawned Again on Easter Day
Translator: John Mason Neale (1851, alt.)
Meter: LM
Language: English
Publication Date: 1998
Source: Latin, c. 5th century
Tune Information
Name: PUER NOBIS NASCITUR
Adapter: Michael Praetorius (1609)
Harmonizer: George R. Woodward (1904)
Meter: LM
Key: D Major
Source: Melody, Piae Cantiones, 1582


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John Mason Neale was the most significant of the translators from Latin who were part of the 'High Church' Oxford movement within the Anglican church


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