Jefferson (Alexander Johnson)

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• (Posted 2017-03-21)  CPDL #43691:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-03-21).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 60 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Transcribed from Moore's Columbian Harmony, 1825, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass. Note heads in four-shape format, as originally published. All five stanzas of Newton's hymn included. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.

General Information

Title: Jefferson
First Line: Glorious things of thee are spoken
Composer: Alexander Johnson
Lyricist: John Newton

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB
  Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred   Meter: 87. 87. D

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: First published in Johnson's Tennessee Harmony, 1818. Southern Harmony, 1835, p. 42. The Sacred Harp, p. 148, 1844 to the present. Words by John Newton, 1779, Olney Hymns, Hymn 60 of Book 1, with five stanzas.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Glorious things of thee are spoken.