Consecration (Samuel Babcock)

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• (Posted 2016-06-26)  CPDL #40168:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-06-26).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 71 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition. Three more stanzas included, selected from Watts' poem.

• (Posted 2016-06-26)  CPDL #40167:   

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-06-26).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 71 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Three more stanzas included, selected from Watts' poem.

General Information

Title: Consecration
First Line: Change me, O God, my flesh shall be
Composer: Samuel Babcock
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred   Meter: 886. 88. 86

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1803 in Babcock's The Middlesex Harmony, Second Edition, p. 106
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, poem entitled Self-Consecration, in five stanzas. Babcock used the fourth stanza of Watts' poem in his composition, varying the words slightly:

• Line 2, "instrument of song" (Watts) — "instrument of praise" (Babcock)
• Line 3, "the notes" (Watts) – "the song" (Babcock)

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at It grieves me, Lord, it grieves me sore.