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: CPDL

Edition notes: Note heads converted to oval shape. Three more pairs of stanzas added from Stennett's hymn.

• (Posted 2017-01-28)  CPDL #42847:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-01-28).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 2 pages, 67 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Shape note format (4-shape), as originally written in 1815-1820. Three more pairs of stanzas added from Stennett's hymn. Re-formatted 2023-07-20.

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. D (C.M.D.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1815 in The Easy Instructor, Edition N
    2nd published: 1820 in Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony, Edition 1
Description: Attributed to Shumway in Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony, 1820. Words mostly by Samuel Stennett, 1787, with seven stanzas; an eighth stanza appears in Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony, by an unknown author. Shumway's work uses as one stanza two stanzas of Stennett's hymn.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at On Jordan's stormy banks I stand.