Solitude (Barnabas McKyes)

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• (Posted 2019-09-10)  CPDL #55312:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2019-09-10).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 53 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Transcribed from Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second, 1820. Notes in four-shape format, as originally published in 1813. Words substituted for this edition: Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1709, Hymn 73 of Book 2. All four stanzas of Watts' hymn included.

• (Posted 2019-09-10)  CPDL #55311:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2019-09-10).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 50 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Transcribed from Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second, 1820. Notes in four-shape format, as originally published in 1813. Original words.

General Information

Title: Solitude
First Line: Come lead me to some lonely shade
Composer: Barnabas McKyes
Lyricist: Anonymous

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1813 in Wyeth's Repository, Part Second
Description: Words by an unknown author, apparently first published with this tune in 1813, one stanza.

Original text and translations

English text

Come lead me to some lonely shade,
Where turtles moan their loves;
Tall shadows were for lovers made,
And grief becomes the groves.