Sweet Rivers (William Moore)

Music files

L E G E N D

Disclaimer

How to download

ICON	SOURCE
	Pdf
	Midi
	MusicXML
	MuseScore
	File details
	Help

• (Posted 2018-07-02)  CPDL #50352:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-07-02).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 55 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Arranged by William Hauser, 1848, for four voices SATB. Notes in four-shape format, as published in 1848. Seven stanzas included.

• (Posted 2018-07-02)  CPDL #50351:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-07-02).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 53 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Arranged by William Walker, 1835. Notes in four-shape format, as written in 1835. Seven stanzas included.

• (Posted 2018-07-02)  CPDL #50347:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-07-02).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 52 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Notes in four-shape format, as originally published in 1826. Seven stanzas included.

General Information

Title: Sweet Rivers
First Line: Sweet rivers of redeeming love
Composer: William Moore
Lyricist: John Granade

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred &nbsp: Meter: 86. 86. D (C.M.D.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1825 in Columbian Harmony, p. 135, for three parts: Treble-Tenor-Bass
    2nd published: 1835 in Southern Harmony
    3rd published: 1844 in The Sacred Harp
    4th published: 1848 in The Hesperian Harp
    5th published: 1867 in Walker's The Christian Harmony
Description: Words by John A. Granade, 1804, with seven or eight stanzas. This tune was revised by William Walker in his Southern Harmony, 1835, p. 166, for three parts; and reproduced in The Sacred Harp, p. 61, 1844 to the present. William Hauser revised it and added an Alto part in his Hesperian Harp, 1848; and Hauser's four-part tune was reprinted in William Walker's Christian Harmony, 1867. Hauser's Alto part was added to The Sacred Harp after 1911.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Sweet rivers of redeeming love.