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* '''CPDL #10870:''' [{{SERVER}}/wiki/images/5/54/Macclesfield.pdf {{pdf}}] [{{SERVER}}/wiki/images/1/1a/Macclesfield.mid {{mid}}] | * '''CPDL #10870:''' [{{SERVER}}/wiki/images/5/54/Macclesfield.pdf {{pdf}}] [{{SERVER}}/wiki/images/1/1a/Macclesfield.mid {{mid}}] | ||
{{Editor|Tim Henderson|2006-01-28}}{{ScoreInfo|A4|1|43}}{{Copy|CPDL}} | {{Editor|Tim Henderson|2006-01-28}}{{ScoreInfo|A4|1|43}}{{Copy|CPDL}} | ||
:'''Edition notes:''' late harmony version from Centenary Tunebook (1839) | :'''Edition notes:''' late harmony version from Centenary Tunebook (1839), where the tune is titled 'Macclesfield'. | ||
==General Information== | ==General Information== | ||
'''Title:''' '' | '''Title:''' ''My life's a shade''<br> | ||
{{Composer|William Knapp}} | {{Composer|William Knapp}} | ||
{{Lyricist|Samuel Crossman}} | {{Lyricist|Samuel Crossman}} | ||
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{{Language|English}} | {{Language|English}} | ||
'''Instruments:''' {{acap}} or {{OrgAcc}}<br> | '''Instruments:''' {{acap}} or {{OrgAcc}}<br> | ||
'''Published:''' | '''Published:''' 1753 | ||
'''Description:''' | '''Description:''' | ||
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Then welcome harmless grave; by thee to heav'n I'll go; | Then welcome harmless grave; by thee to heav'n I'll go; | ||
My Lord, his death shall save me from the flames below...... | My Lord, his death shall save me from the flames below...... | ||
</poem> | </poem> | ||
[[Category:Sheet music]] | [[Category:Sheet music]] | ||
[[Category:Baroque music]] | [[Category:Baroque music]] | ||
Revision as of 22:29, 3 August 2011
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- CPDL #23073:
- Editor: Tim Henderson (submitted 2011-01-29). Score information: A4, 1 page, 386 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: "A Funeral Hymn" From New Church Melody: Being a Set of Anthems, Psalms, Hymns, &c. on Various Occasions. In Four Parts with a great Variety of other Anthems, Psalms, Hymns, &c. composed after a Method entirely new, and never printed before 1753.
- CPDL #10870:
- Editor: Tim Henderson (submitted 2006-01-28). Score information: A4, 1 page, 43 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: late harmony version from Centenary Tunebook (1839), where the tune is titled 'Macclesfield'.
General Information
Title: My life's a shade
Composer: William Knapp
Lyricist: Samuel Crossman
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella or Organ
Published: 1753
Description:
External websites:
- Page for this work on IMSLP
Further verses at
http://stoddardfamily.home.comcast.net/L/138.html (Northern Harmony site) or
http://www.ccel.org/w/wesley/hymn/jwg09/jwg0931.html (Methodist Hymnbook)
Original text and translations
English text
My life's a shade; my days
Apace to death decline;
My Lord is life, he'll raise
My dust again, e'en mine.
Chorus:
Sweet truth to me, I shall arise
And with these eyes my savior see.
My peaceful grave shall keep my bones till that sweet day,
I wake from my long sleep, and leave my bed of clay.
My Lord his angels shall their golden trumpets sound;
At whose most welcome call my grave shall be unbound....
I said sometimes with tears, Ah me! I'm loth to die;
Lord, silence thou those fears, my life's with thee on high....
What means my trembling heart, to be thus shy of death ?
My life and I shan't part, tho' I resign my breath .......
Then welcome harmless grave; by thee to heav'n I'll go;
My Lord, his death shall save me from the flames below......