In the Silent Garden
About the Song
Anthem accompaniment includes piano, organ and two flutes. This is a difficult number to prepare, and sounds best with a large choir.
This song is part of the “In Him We Live” cantata.
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Lyrics
Come at the dawn to the silent garden
Brightly beams the morning sun
Come at the dawn to the silent garden
See what wonder the Lord has done!
Come to the tomb in the silent garden
Lo! the stone is rolled away
Linger in awe, for the tomb lies empty
See the place where His body lay
He is risen! He is risen! risen unto endless life
Weep no more in the silent garden
Death is swallowed up in Christ
Seek Him no more in the silent garden
Seek Him not among the dead
Find Him in glory among the living
Risen even as He said
Victory is wrought in the silent garden
Joy is born of an empty tomb
Sing for the morning of our salvation
Christ has brought us life anew
He is risen! He is risen! risen unto endless life
Weep no more in the silent garden
Death is swallowed up in Christ
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I absolutely love the introduction to this song – the music FEELS like the dawn is breaking. So beautiful, and the lyrics are well-written. Thank you Sally! I am a fairly new choir director in my ward and having your music available to us for no cost is so generous of you. We will be singing it as a hymn arrangement for Easter but in the future I may have to consider some of the other options you have given for instrumentalists! I’m a fan of Sally DeFord music.
I plan to use the hymn for my women’s ensemble for Easter (some of us sing tenor), but I wanted to use pieces of the accompaniment from the other ensemble music to make things more interesting. However, in trying to meld a few things together, I realized that the hymn is in a different key! Is there a way to transpose one of the other pieces so it will be easier to use?
Actually, I never sang a solo, but I had 3 people sing, a soprano, an alto and a tenor, and I played the piano. I think it went well! They did great! it’s flexible, the song is! Althea
I love this song to pieces, due to the words and the great music written for it, I plan to sing it in church around Easter 2020, but wondered if you could make a solo using the melody line from the original, except a bit lower for just a few spots, for those of us that don’t hit high e well. You could make a low solo and high solo anyway I know, thank you Sally, have loved your music for years and years, our choir has sang multiple songs of yours and I know the spirit has been with you when writing the lyrics!
If not enough time, I plan to use the orginal SATB Music and sing the solo with it! I love it that much!
I’ve never really envisioned it as a solo… I’ll have to think about this one!
Thank you dear one, it will work out with the same music written for SATB, I am positive! I’ve already been practicing too, can’t know it too much! I’ve loved this song from when you first wrote it, the music and the words both! Just a tweak and it works!
Do you offer piano and flute duet music for Easter or songs about the Savior from Church hymn arrangements?
I agree with the question, yes please, there isn’t enough Easter music in church for the organ most! But a duet would also be most wonderful!
I would love a recording of this song. It looks so beautiful! I love all the wonderful, beautiful songs I am able to find here for my choir!
I would love to have the recording done by James, or anyone really. This is one of my favorites. I noticed that older cd’s with James on them are no longer offered, sad about that really, no help for it though I’m sure.
Althea, I offer CDs for convenience… obviously… since the tracks are free for download here. My CD company discontinues disks that haven’t been purchased in 6 months, so older ones often drop off. Physical media just isn’t the thing these days. 🙂
I understand Sally, times are a changing huh? Some of us just aren’t ready to stream for evermore, but I wear out the cd’s, just going to keep adding them to itunes first! Thanks, Sally!
Thank you very much for sharing your wonderful music. Our church choir sings a lot of your songs.
We sang the anthem “In the Silent Garden” this Sunday. I am so appreciative of all the songs of yours I have used as choir director, but this one especially touched me. I continued to discover layers of meaning in the song up to and including the performance in sacrament meeting. My testimony was strengthened through this process.
The generous way in which you share your musical creations is also an inspiration to me. Thank you for all you do.