True Devotion (Oliver Holden)

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• (Posted 2021-09-28)  CPDL #65924:     

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2021-09-28).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 52 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Since Holden used the last stanza of Watts' poem, no further stanzas are appropriate.

General Information

Title: True Devotion
Composer: Oliver Holden
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred, Unknown

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1792 in Holden's American Harmony (Oliver Holden)
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1706, in Horae Lyricae, poem entitled The Song of Angels Above, last (22nd) stanza. Holden amended the third line, from "bless the God that I adore" to "bless the God my soul adores."

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