Welcome (Oliver Holden)

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  • (Posted 2016-01-02)  CPDL #38041:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif MusicXML
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-01-02).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 74 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Oval note edition. All seven stanzas included.
  • (Posted 2016-01-02)  CPDL #38040:  Icon_pdf.gif
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-01-02).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 75 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). All seven stanzas included.

General Information

Title: Welcome
First Line: Come, ye sinners, poor and wretched
Composer: Oliver Holden
Lyricist: Joseph Hart

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred   Meter: 87. 87. 47 (Holden)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: Published in The Paslmodist's Assistant, 1806, p. 100. Words by Joseph Hart, 1759, entitled Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ, with seven stanzas. Hart's hymn has an unusual meter: 87. 87. 12 7, the fifth line consisting of a four-beat phrase repeated three times. Holden changed the fifth line, the phrase is sung once, making Holden's meter 87.87. 47.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Come, ye sinners, poor and wretched.