Tender Thoughts (Oliver Holden)

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• (Posted 2015-07-16)  CPDL #36108:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-16).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 55 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition. Counter part written by B. C. Johnston, 2015. The other four stanzas from Doddridge's hymn added below.

• (Posted 2015-07-16)  CPDL #36107:     

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-16).   Score information: 7 x 10 in (landscape), 1 page, 68 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Counter part written by B. C. Johnston, 2015. The other four stanzas from Doddridge's hymn added below.

• (Posted 2015-07-16)  CPDL #36106:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-16).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 47 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition, as written in 1800. The other four stanzas from Doddridge's hymn added below.

• (Posted 2015-07-16)  CPDL #36105:     

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-16).   Score information: 7 x 10 in (landscape), 1 page, 62 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape), otherwise as written in 1800. The other four stanzas from Doddridge's hymn added below.

General Information

Title: Tender Thoughts
First Line: Arise, my tender thoughts, arise
Composer: Oliver Holden
Lyricist: Philip Doddridge

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1800 in Plain Psalmody, p. 30, voiced for three parts: Treble-Tenor-Bass
Description: Words by Philip Doddridge, published in 1755, his Hymn 64, in five stanzas. Holden has modified the first stanza, as shown below.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Arise, my tenderest thoughts, arise.

English text

1. Arise, my tenderest thoughts, arise, (a)
To torrents melt my streaming eyes; (b)
And thou, my heart, with anguish feel
Those evils which thou canst not heal.
_________
(a) Holden has "my tender thoughts." (b) Holden has "torrents drown my weeping eyes."