Davis (Anonymous)
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2019-09-25). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 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
First Line: O thou in whose presence my soul takes delight
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist: Joseph Swain
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred Meter: 11 8. 11 8
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1813 in Wyeth's Repository, Part Second
2nd published: 1818 in Metcalf's Kentucky Harmonist
3rd published: 1820 in The Missouri Harmony
4th published: 1820 in Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony
5th published: 1825 in Moore's Columbian Harmony
6th published: 1826 in Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony
7th published: 1835 in A Compilation of Genuine Church Music
8th published: 1835 in Southern Harmony
9th published: 1848 in The Hesperian Harp
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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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at O thou in whose presence my soul takes delight.