Vanity (Jacob French)

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• (Posted 2016-03-08)  CPDL #38813: 

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-03-08).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 71 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). All six stanzas included from Watts' paraphrase.

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Title: Vanity
Composer: Jacob French
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1802

Description: First published in Harmony of Harmony, 1802, p. 38. Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, paraphrase of Psalm 39, Part 2, in six stanzas. French used the fourth stanza in his composition ("Some walk in honor's gaudy show"), but this by itself makes little sense without the preceding stanzas.

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