Content (Walter Janes)

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• (Posted 2016-07-16)  CPDL #40390: 

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-07-16).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 67 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). All five stanzas included.

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Title: Content
Composer: Walter Janes
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Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1803

Description: First published in The Massachusetts Harmony, 1803, p. 32. Words adapted (apparently by Janes himself) from Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, New Version, paraphrase of Psalm 11, in seven stanzas. Janes has conflated the first line of the stanza, converting the meter from the Common Meter (86. 86) of Tate and Brady to Short Meter (66. 86).

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