Knoxville (Abraham Maxim)

Music files

L E G E N D

Disclaimer

How to download

ICON	SOURCE
	Pdf
	Midi
	MusicXML
	File details
	Help

• (Posted 2017-01-21)  CPDL #42736:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-01-21).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 59 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition. Three more pairs of stanzas included, from Watts' paraphrase. Words of the sixth stanza amended.

• (Posted 2017-01-21)  CPDL #42735:   

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-01-21).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 39 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Three more pairs of stanzas included, from Watts' paraphrase. Words of the sixth stanza amended.

General Information

Title: Knoxville
First Line: O for a shout of sacred joy
Composer: Abraham Maxim
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

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

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1802 in The Oriental Harmony
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1717, paraphrase of Psalm 47, in six stanzas. Maxim used the first two stanzas of Watts' paraphrase in his composition.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 47.

English text Isaac Watts, Psalm 47, st. 6 The British islands are the Lord's, There Abraham's God is known, While powers, and princes, shields and swords, Submit before his throne.

Amended for these editions Know that the nations are the Lord's, Where Abraham's God is known, While powers, and princes, shields and swords, Submit before his throne.