Delay (Jeremiah Ingalls)

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• (Posted 2017-04-19)  CPDL #44123:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-04-19).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 54 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition, as written in 1805. Eight stanzas included, as in Ingalls 1805. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.

• (Posted 2017-04-19)  CPDL #44122:   

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-04-19).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 56 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Shape notes added (4-shape). Eight stanzas included, as printed in Ingalls 1805.

General Information

Title: Delay
First Line: Ah! whither shall I go
Composer: Jeremiah Ingalls
Lyricist: Charles Wesley

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB

Genre: Sacred   Meter: 66. 86. D (S.M.D.) (Wesley); Meter: 66. 86 (S.M.) (Ingalls)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1805 in Ingalls' The Christian Harmony, p. 108

Description: This tune was re-harmonized by Lucius Chapin in 1812, in four parts, re-titled Ninety-Third Psalm. In the re-harmonized form it appeared in Southern Harmony, 1835, page 7 (three parts); and in The Sacred Harp, page 31, from 1844 (three parts) to the present. Some time before 1911 the tune in The Sacred Harp acquired a different Alto part than Chapin's.

Words by Charles Wesley, 1742, Hymns on God's Everlasting Love, no. 16, with sixteen stanzas, in double simple meter (66. 86. 66. 86). Ingalls' composition halved the meter (66. 86), taking half of one of Wesley's stanzas at a time – so Ingalls has eight stanzas, which are stanzas one, two, three, and twelve of Wesley's hymn.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Ah! whither should I go.