Bridgewater (Lewis Edson)

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• (Posted 2023-12-26)  CPDL #78490:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-12-26).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 65 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Chorister's Companion, 1782. Two more stanzas of Tate and Brady's paraphrase included.

General Information

Title: Bridgewater
Composer: Lewis Edson
Lyricist: Tate and Brady^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TrCTB
Genre: Sacred, Unknown

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1782
Description: From the time it was first published in 1782, this tune has remained popular. The Hymn Tune Index lists 121 publications in the 38 years to 1820, and there have been many more since. There has been a wide variety of words accompanying the tune over the years. It appeared in The Hesperian Harp in 1848, and in The Sacred Harp, p. 276, from 1860 to the present (1991) edition. Words originally from Tate and Brady's New Version, paraphrase of Psalm 95, with eleven stanzas. Edson used the first stanza in his composition.

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