Welcome, welcome, every guest (William Tansur)
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- (Posted 2024-08-08) CPDL #81533:
- • Shape-note edition (as originally published):
- • Oval-note edition:
- Editor: Antonio Higgins (submitted 2024-08-08). Score information: Letter (landscape), 1 page, 33 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Transcribed from Wyeth's Repository. MP3 is a realization, in TBAS order, where each voice sings the full canon at least once.
General Information
Title: Welcome, welcome, every guest
First Line: Welcome, welcome, every guest
Composer: William Tansur
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: 4 equal voices
Genre: Secular, Canon Meter: 77. 77
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1772 in The Elements of Music Display'd
2nd published: 1783 in Select Harmony (Oliver Brownson)
3rd published: 1800 in The Musical Harmonist (Stephen Jenks)
4th published: 1821 in The American Harmonist (Stephen St. John)
5th published: 1826 in Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music (John Wyeth)
6th published: 1854 in Southern Harmony
7th published: 1911 in The Sacred Harp (1911)
Description: The lyrics are an adaptation of "Welcome, every guest"
from John Blow's Amphion Anglicus (1700). Alto and bass
voices will have to sing the third and fourth sections
an octave lower. The original score includes a raised leading tone.
External websites:
- [1] Scan of Tansur's publication on Archive.org.
- [2] Fasola Discussions forum post about this canon.
Original text and translations
English text
Welcome, welcome, every guest,
Welcome to our music feast:
Music is our only cheer,
Fill both soul and ravished ear;
Sacred Nine, teach us the mood.
Sweetest notes to be explored.
Softly swell the trembling air,
To complete our concert fair.
Sprightly Bacchus, fill our bowl
Let no miser us control;
Brave Apollo, us inspire,
Sweetly tune each vocal Lyre.
Sacred nine, &c.