Composer: Olejar, Peter Paul Billings, William
Voicing: SAB or SATB
Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Occasion:: Tenebrae
Series: Choral
Instruments: Piano
Topics: Lament/Grief/Sorrow
Liturgical Year: Lent, Holy Week/Three Days, Good Friday
Description: "When Jesus Wept", the famous, exquisite round by the first well-known American composer, William Billings, is found in this setting with a new keyboard accompaniment. One iteration of the tune features an interesting accompaniment of a repeated figure in the men's voices echoing one of the earliest known rounds, Sumer Is Icumen In. Especially appropriate for Lent and for Holy Week.