The Dying Penitent (James P. Carrell)

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• (Posted 2024-01-12)  CPDL #78695:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2024-01-12).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 42 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Virginia Harmony, 1831. Note heads in four-shape format, as published in 1831. For this edition, the six stanzas of Stennett's hymn are divided into two groups of three, each with meter 86. 86. Triple (C. M. T.). The upper staff is repeated, with two stanzas, and the lower staff then has the third stanza.

General Information

Title: The Dying Penitent
First Line: As on the cross the Savior hung
Composer: James P. Carrell
Lyricist: Samuel Stennett
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: TrTB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune   Meter: 86. 86. T (C.M.T.) (Carrell)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1831 in The Virginia Harmony, p. 50
Description: Words by Samuel Stennett, Rippon's Selection, 1778, with six C. M. stanzas. Carrell's music is 8.6.8.6.8.6.8.6. The way the text underlies the music in the 1831 original suggests that both staffs were intended to be repeated, but there are no repeat symbols anywhere on the page. On the top staff, stanza one was to be followed by the same music to stanza two; then on the lower staff, stanzas three and four to the repeated music. (Stanzas five and six were printed below, but it is uncertain to which notes they are to be sung.) Perhaps this was done, because the second stanza ends in the middle of a sentence, leading directly to the third.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at As on the cross the Savior hung.