Music: from Klug's Geistliche Lieder, Wittenberg, 1533 · Words: Luther, Martin (1483-1546) · Press play and watch the score light up — solo any part, slow it down, loop the hard bits. Free.
Opens the practice studio: score follows the sound, every part on its own track.
1. Dear Christians, one and all rejoice, With exultation springing, And with united heart and voice And holy rapture singing, Proclaim the wonders God hath done, How his right arm the vict'ry won; Right dearly it hath cost him.
2. Fast bound in Satan's chains I lay. Death brooded darkly o'er me; Sin was my torment night and day, Therein my mother bore me. Deeper and deeper still I fell, Life was become a living hell, So firmly sin possessed me.
3. My good works could avail me naught, For they with sin were stainéd; Freewill against God's judgment fought, And dead to good remainéd. Grief drove me to despair, and I Had nothing left me but to die, To hell I fast was sinking.
4. God saw, in his eternal grace, My sorrow out of measure; He thought upon his tenderness To save was his good pleasure. He turn'd to me a Father's heart- Not small the cost to heal my smart He gave his best and dearest.
This page was generated by the MelodyWiz engine from a public domain score. The same engine turns your sheet music — the PDF you bought, or a photo of the page on your stand — into a playable, practice-ready score in about a minute. Hear your sheet music → or practice a part →