Mortality (Daniel Read)

Music files

**L E G E N D**
ICON	SOURCE
	Pdf
	Midi
	MusicXML
	File details
	Help

(Posted 2014-12-08) CPDL #33615:

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-12-08). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 29 kB Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval-note edition. As revised by Read in 1806. The other seven stanzas of Watts' paraphrase added below.

(Posted 2014-12-08) CPDL #33616:

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-12-08). Score information: 7 x 10 in (landscape), 1 page, 53 kB Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). As revised by Read in 1806. The other seven stanzas of Watts' paraphrase added below.

General Information

Title: Mortality
First Line: Death, like an overflowing stream
Composer: Daniel Read
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1785 in The American Singing-Book, Edition 1, p. 29
2nd published: 1806 in The Columbian Harmonist, Edition B3a
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, his paraphrase of Psalm 90. Read used the fifth stanza of Watts' paraphrase in his composition.

External websites:

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 90.