Solitude (Elisha West)

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• (Posted 2019-12-22)  CPDL #56388:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2019-12-22).   Score information: Unknown, 2 pages, 62 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). The last stanzas included from the two sources, with Watts' paraphrase shortened as before. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.

General Information

Title: Solitude
Composer: Elisha West
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Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Unknown

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1798 in Village Harmony

Description: Words are a combination of two paraphrases of Psalm 11. The first part is the first stanza of Isaac Watts' paraphrase, with the second and fourth lines reduced in length to six syllables; the second part is the first stanza of Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady's paraphrase.

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