The Harmonic Minstrelsey (Walter Janes)

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Title: The Harmonic Minstrelsey

Full Title: The Harmonic Minstelsey, Containing: A New Collection of Sacred Music, in Three and Four Parts, Comprising Variety In Style, Tune, Time and Measure; and Well Proportioned to All the Different Meters and Keys Commonly Used in Churches — Together With a Number of Set-Pieces, Choruses and Anthems, Appropriate to Ordinations, Dedications, Thanksgivings, etc. — Chiefly Original. To Which is Prefixed: The Necessary Rules For Learners. The Whole Being Calculated and Designed for the Use of Schools and Public Worship.

Composer – Compiler: Walter Janes

Publication date and place: 1807 by H. Mann in Dedham, Massachusetts, 104 pp.

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Works at CPDL

Title	Year	Composer	Lyricist	First Line	Genre	Subgenre	Vo.	Meter
Burlington	1807	Walter Janes	Isaac Watts	Jesus shall reign where-e'er the sun	Sacred		4	88. 88 (L.M.)
Celebration	1807	Walter Janes	Isaac Watts	Loud hallelujahs to the Lord	Sacred	Set pieces	3	88. 88. 88
Despair	1807	Walter Janes	Isaac Watts	As on some lonely building's top	Sacred		4	86. 86 (C.M.)
Despondency	1807	Walter Janes	Isaac Watts	Oft have I sat in secret sighs	Sacred		4	86. 86 (C.M.)
Exaltation	1807	Walter Janes	Isaac Watts	Now shall my head be lifted high	Sacred		4	86. 86 (C.M.)
Funeral Hymn	1807	Walter Janes	Anne Steele	Life is a span, a fleeting hour	Sacred		4	86. 86 (C.M.)
Majesty	1807	Walter Janes	Isaac Watts	The Lord Jehovah reigns	Sacred		4	668. 668
Precept	1807	Walter Janes	Isaac Watts	Now in the heat of youthful blood	Sacred		3	88. 88 (L.M.)
Repentance	1807	Walter Janes	Isaac Watts	Show pity, Lord, O Lord, forgive	Sacred		3	88. 88 (L.M.)
Victory	1807	Walter Janes	Thomas Scott	Angels, roll the rock away	Sacred		3	77. 77