Davis (Anonymous)
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- (Posted 2019-09-25) CPDL #55426:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2019-09-25). Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 54 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Notes in four-shape format, as published in 1813. Transcribed from Wyeth's Repository, Part Second, 1813. Six stanzas (of meter 11 8.11 8 included from Swain's hymn. {{MXL}
General Information
Title: Davis
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist: Joseph Swain
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred, Unknown
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1813 in Wyeth's Repository, Part Second
Description: A folk hymn (Lowens 1964, Music 2005). First published in Wyeth's Repository, Part Second, 1813, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass. Rearranged (as New Salem) in Metcalf's Kentucky Harmonist, 1818. Two arrangements of this tune appear in Carden's Missouri Harmony, 1820, and in Moore's Columbian Harmony, 1825. It also appears as Gratitude in Davisson's Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony, 1820. It was reprinted as Davis in Southern Harmony, 1835, and The Hesperian Harp, 1848; and as New Salem in Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony, 1826, and Compilation of Genuine Church Music, 1835. Words by Joseph Swain, 1791, with six stanzas of meter 11 8. 11 8. D.
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