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- (Posted 2025-05-27) CPDL #85109:
- Editor: Antonio Higgins (submitted 2025-05-27). Score information: Letter (landscape), 1 page, 45 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Words by Isaac Watts added. From the David Allebach Manuscript, ca. 1813-1820. It is unknown whether this was arranged before the Nicholson arrangement.
- (Posted 2024-12-17) CPDL #83117:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2024-12-17). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 51 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transcribed from Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony, 1825. Note heads in four-shape format, as published in 1820, 1835, and 1844. Stanzas 1, 2, and 9 of Wesley's hymn included.
General Information
Title: Pleasant Hill
First Line: And let this feeble body fail
Composer: William Nicholson
Lyricist: Charles Wesley
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: TrCtTB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
{{Pub|1|1820|in [[David Allebach Manuscript, ca. 1813-1820}]}}
2nd published: 1820 in Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony, Edition 1
3rd published: 1835 in Southern Harmony
4th published: 1844 in The Sacred Harp
Description: Possibly based on a folk tune, though the exact date of Allebach's arrangement is not determined. It may be before Nicholson's, however. This tune appears in Southern Harmony 1835, p. 66, and in The Sacred Harp 1844–1991, p. 205. Words by Charles Wesley, Hymn 3 in Funeral Hymns, 1759, with nine stanzas. Nicholson included four of Wesley's stanzas in his composition.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at And let this feeble body fail and Psalm 133.