Lamentation (Oliver Holden)

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• (Posted 2015-07-20)  CPDL #36188:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-20).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 59 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Four-part version. Oval note edition. Counter written by B. C. Johnston, 2015. Slightly edited to equalize phrases. Nine stanzas selected from Watts' poem added below.

• (Posted 2015-07-20)  CPDL #36187:     

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-20).   Score information: 7 x 10 in (landscape), 1 page, 65 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Four-part version. Note shapes added (4-shape). Counter written by B. C. Johnston, 2015. Slightly edited to equalize phrases. Nine stanzas selected from Watts' poem added below.

• (Posted 2015-07-20)  CPDL #36186:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-20).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 53 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Three-part version. Oval note edition, as written in 1792, slightly edited to equalize phrases. Nine stanzas selected from Watts' poem added below.

• (Posted 2015-07-20)  CPDL #36185:     

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-20).   Score information: 7 x 10 in (landscape), 1 page, 54 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Three-part version. Note shapes added (4-shape). Slightly edited to equalize phrases. Nine stanzas selected from Watts' poem added below.

General Information

Title: Lamentation
First Line: Earth has detained me prisoner long
Composer: Oliver Holden
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1792 in Oliver Holden's American Harmony, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1706, Lyric Poems, Book 1, entitled The Song of Angels Above, in 22 stanzas.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Earth has detained me prisoner long.