How can I keep from singing (Robert Lowry)
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2024-04-07). Score information: A5, 1 page, 37 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: This is the arrangement of CPDL 54925, transposed into two staffs; in F major. All three 1868 stanzas included.
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2024-04-07). Score information: A5, 1 page, 38 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transcribed from Bright Jewels for the Sunday School, 1869; in G major. Words by Pauline T., 1868, all three stanzas included.
- Editor: John Christensen (submitted 2019-07-29). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 253 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Arrangement (by ?) for SATB in four staffs.
- Editor: Glenn O'Brien (submitted 2012-01-24). Score information: A4, 1 page, 13 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Public domain, courtesy of the Cyber Hymnal.
General Information
Title: How Can I Keep From Singing
Composer: Robert Lowry
Lyricist: Pauline T.
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 87. 87. D
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1860
Description: Music by Robert Lowry in 1869, which was reprinted in several Christian hymnbooks in the 19th and 20th centuries; words published August 7, 1868, in The New York Observer, titled "Always Rejoicing", attributed to "Pauline T.". There have been many rearrangements and revisions of both music and words from the middle 20th century on.
See also:
- How can I keep from singing? (Patrick O'Shea) – Arrangement of Lowry's music, with 1960s secular words
External websites:
View the Wikipedia article on How can I keep from singing (Robert Lowry).
- Original music and words, from Cyber Hymnal
Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at How can I keep from singing?.