Supplication (Daniel Read)
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-12-05). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 70 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). One note changed, to avoid a dissonance. One more stanza included from Watts' paraphrase.
General Information
Title: Supplication
First Line: O wash my soul from every sin
Composer: Daniel Read
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: First published in The Columbian Harmonist, No. 1, 1793, p. 16. Words by Isaac Watts, 1717, paraphrase of Psalm 51, Part 1, with six stanzas. Read used the fourth stanzas of Watts' paraphrase in his composition.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 51.