Delaware (Samuel Babcock)

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• (Posted 2016-05-25)  CPDL #39778: 

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-05-25).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 73 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.

• (Posted 2016-05-24)  CPDL #39777: 

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-05-24).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 74 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Another pair of stanzas (20 and 21) included, from Watts' poem.

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Title: Delaware
First Line: In awful state the conquering God
Composer: Samuel Babcock
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB

Genre: Sacred   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: First published in Babcock's The Middlesex Harmony, 1795, pp. 3-4. Words by Isaac Watts, 1706, a poem entitled The Song of Angels Above, in 22 stanzas. Babcock used stanzas 18 and 19 in his composition.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Earth has detained me prisoner long.