New Jordan (Nehemiah Shumway)
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- (Posted 2017-01-29) CPDL #42849:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-01-29). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 80 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note heads converted to oval shape. Three more pairs of stanzas added from Stennett's hymn. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
- (Posted 2017-01-28) CPDL #42847:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-01-28). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 2 pages, 96 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Shape note format (4-shape), as originally written. Three more pairs of stanzas added from Stennett's hymn.
General Information
Title: New Jordan
First Line: On Jordan's stormy banks I stand
Composer: Nehemiah Shumway
Lyricist: Samuel Stennett
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.) (Stennett); Meter: 86. 86. D (C.M.D.) (Shumway)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: First published in The Easy Instructor, 1815. Attributed to Shumway in Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony, 1820. Words mostly by Samuel Stennett, 1787, with seven stanzas; an eighth stanza appears in Kentucky Harmony, by an unknown author. This work uses the first two stanzas of Stennett's hymn.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at On Jordan's stormy banks I stand.