Jesus, lover of my soul (Marshfield) (Thomas Clark)
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- Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2015-11-30). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 68 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: The order of staves in the source is Tenor - [Alto] - Air - [Bass], with the alto part printed in the treble clef an octave above sounding pitch. The first verse only of the text is underlaid in the source: a further three verses are printed after the music, and have here been added editorially.
General Information
Title: Jesus, lover of my soul
Composer: Thomas Clark
Tune: Marshfield
Lyricist: Charles Wesley
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 77. 77. D
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo
Published: 1807
Description: This setting was published on pp36-37 of Thomas Clark's A Third Set of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, London: [1807]. Hymn Tune Index tune number 11867.
A variant of the same text (beginning 'Jesu, lover of my soul') was subsequently set by Clark to another tune, Leveland, in his collection The Congregational Harmonist, London: 1837.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Jesu, lover of my soul.