Invitation (Philo Sherman)

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• (Posted 2025-11-01)  CPDL #87278:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2025-11-01).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 46 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Musical Medley, 1808. All seven stanzas included. Note heads replaced with four-shape ones.

General Information

Title: Invitation
First Line: Come, ye sinners, poor and needy
Composer: Philo Sherman
Lyricist: Joseph Hart
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TrCtTB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune   Meter: 87. 87. 88

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1808 in The Musical Medley, no. 22
Description: Words by Joseph Hart, 1759, Hymns on Different Subjects, with seven stanzas. Sherman used the first stanza in his composition, altered from "poor and wretched" to "poor and needy."

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Come, ye sinners, poor and wretched.