Suffering Savior (Alexander Gillet)

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• (Posted 2018-05-17)  CPDL #49682:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-05-17).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 68 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition. Transcribed from The Easy Instructor, 1803, where the notes appear in four-shape format (originally published in 1796 with round notes). The whole piece converted from 3:2 time to 3:4 time. Words substituted for this edition: Isaac Watts, 1709, Hymn 9 of Book 2, with six stanzas. Another pair of stanzas included, selected from Watts' hymn.

• (Posted 2018-05-17)  CPDL #49681:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-05-17).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 2 pages, 59 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Easy Instructor, 1803, where the notes appear in four-shape format (originally published in 1796 with round notes). The whole piece converted from 3:2 time to 3:4 time. Words substituted for this edition: Isaac Watts, 1709, Hymn 9 of Book 2, with six stanzas. Another pair of stanzas included, selected from Watts' hymn.

General Information

Title: Suffering Savior
First Line: Alas, and did my Savior bleed
Composer: Alexander Gillet
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Set piece   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1795 in The New York Collection of Sacred Harmony
    2nd published: 1803 in The Easy Instructor, Edition 1.2
Description: Words originally by Isaac Watts, 1719, paraphrase of Psalm 69, Second Part 1, which begins Save me, O God, the swelling floods. Gillet used the first two stanzas of Watts' paraphrase in his composition.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Alas! and did my Savior bleed.