Saco (Daniel Belknap)
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Music files
ICON | SOURCE |
---|---|
Midi | |
MusicXML | |
File details | |
Help |
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-10-26). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 43 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Four-part version; Counter part written by B. C. Johnston, 2017. Note shapes added (4-shape). Stanza as in Belknap 1806. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-10-26). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 43 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Three-part version. Oval note edition, as written in 1806. Stanza as in 1806. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-10-26). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 40 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Three-part version. Note shapes added (4-shape). Stanza as in Belknap 1806.
General Information
Title: Saco
First Line: The Lord hath eyes to give the blind
Composer: Daniel Belknap
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1806 in The Village Compilation, p. 92, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, paraphrase of Psalm 146, with seven stanzas. Belknap used the first two lines of the sixth stanza, then the third line of the fifth stanza, then the third and fourth lines of the sixth stanza, and finished with the fourth line of the fifth stanza; six lines in all.
External websites:
Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 146.