Redeeming Love (Jeremiah Ingalls)

From ChoralWiki
Revision as of 15:49, 12 October 2019 by BarryJ (talk | contribs) (Text replacement - "Published(.*)\b" to "Pub|1$1")
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Music files

L E G E N D Disclaimer How to download
ICON SOURCE
Icon_pdf.gif Pdf
Icon_snd.gif Midi
MusicXML.png MusicXML
File details.gif File details
Question.gif Help
  • (Posted 2017-04-01)  CPDL #43845:       
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-04-01).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 73 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Oval note edition. Four more pairs of stanzas included. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
  • (Posted 2017-04-01)  CPDL #43844:   
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-04-01).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 73 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Four more pairs of stanzas included.

General Information

Title: Redeeming Love
First Line: O now begin the heavenly theme
Composer: Jeremiah Ingalls
Lyricist: Anonymous

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB

Genre: Sacred   Meter: 77. 77 (original), Meter: 88. 88. D (L.M.D.) (Ingalls)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1805 in Ingalls' The Christian Harmony, pp. 69-70, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass

Description: This is a folk hymn, according to George Pullen Jackson (1953b); Jackson assumed that it derived from a dance tune, but he was unable to discover which one. Words by an unknown author, apparently first published in Rippon's Selection, 1787. The words first published in 77. 77. meter; Ingalls altered these to 88. 88. by adding a syllable to each line. Ingalls used two stanzas in the composition.

External websites:

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Now begin the heavenly theme.