God Rest you merry, Gentlemen for String Quartet

God Rest you merry, Gentlemen

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A lively Christmas carol for easy string quartet!
Instrumentation :	String quartet (two violins, viola and cello)	Period/genre :	Folk & Traditional
Included :	One score and four parts	Composed/published :	18th century
Edition :	Arranged by M.A. Caux	Skill level :	Grade 2/12 : Easy
Movements :	Lively	Pages :	6

Sources :

God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen is a famous English Christmas carol.

An alternate title is God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen.

Both the lyrics and the music date from the 18th century and are by unknown author and composer.

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1843) refers to this song :

...at the first sound of God bless you merry, gentlemen! May nothing you dismay!, Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost.

Program Notes :

Source : Bramley, Rev. Henry Ramsden and Stainer, Sir John, Christmas Carols New and Old. London : Novello, Ewer & Co., ca 1871.

This score is an arrangement for easy string quartet (violin I, violin II, viola and violoncello).

For your greater enjoyment, the score includes the complete lyrics in English (7 verses and chorus).

PDF excerpt :

God Rest you merry, Gentlemen (first page)
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References :

Christmas Sheet Music

Associated collections :

Christmas Sheet Music for String Quartet (Easy)!

Other beautiful CHRISTMAS for String Quartet (Easy) sheet music :

God Rest you merry, Gentlemen

1. God rest you merry, gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay,
Remember Christ our Saviour
Was born on Christmas Day;
To save us all from Satan's power
When we were gone astray.

Chorus
O tidings of comfort and joy,
Comfort and joy,
O tidings of comfort and joy.

2. In Bethlehem, in Jewry,
This blessed Babe was born,
And laid within a manger,
Upon this blessed Morn;
The which His Mother Mary,
Did nothing take in scorn.

O tidings, etc.

3. From God our Heavenly Father,
A blessed Angel came;
And unto certain Shepherds,
Brought tidings of the same :
How that in Bethlehem was born
The Son of God by Name.

O tidings, etc.

4. Fear not, then, said the Angel,
Let nothing you affright,
This day is born a Saviour
Of a pure Virgin bright,
To free all those who trust in Him
From Satan's power and might.

O tidings, etc.

5. The shepherds at those tidings,
Rejoiced much in mind,
And left their flocks a-feeding,
In tempest, storm, and wind :
And went to Bethlehem staightway,
The Son of God to find.

O tidings, etc.

6. And when they came to Bethlehem,
Where our dear Saviour lay,
They found Him in a manger,
Where oxen feed on hay;
His Mother Mary kneeling down,
Unto the Lord did pray.

O tidings, etc.

7. Now to the Lord sing praises,
All you within this place,
And with true love and brotherhood
Each other now embrace;
This holy tide of Christmas
All other doth deface.

O tidings, etc.

Source : Bramley and Stainer, Christmas Carols New and Old. London : Novello, Ewer & Co., ca 1871. Carol 1.

God Rest you merry, Gentlemen for String Quartet

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God Rest you merry, Gentlemen

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