The General Doom (Jeremiah Ingalls)

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• (Posted 2017-09-06)  CPDL #46244:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-09-06).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 43 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). All eight stanzas of Hart's hymn included.

General Information

Title: The General Doom
First Line: Behold! with awful pomp
Composer: Jeremiah Ingalls
Lyricist: Joseph Hart

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred   Meter: 66. 86 (S.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1805 in Ingalls' The Christian Harmony, pp. 55-56, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass
Description: Words by Joseph Hart, 1759, with eight stanzas. This tune is a precursor to Thirtieth [Psalm] (attributed to Amzi or Lucius Chapin) in Patterson's Church Music, 1813, according to Steel and Hulan (2010). I consider them different tunes (Temperley, Hymn Tune Index), with some similarity.

Original text and translations

English text 1. Behold! with awful pomp The Judge prepares to come; The archangel sounds the dreadful trump, And wakes the general doom. 2. Nature, in wild amaze, Her dissolution mourns: Blushes of blood the moon deface; The sun to darkness turns.

3. The living look with dread: The frighted dead arise; Start from the monumental bed, And lift their ghastly eyes. 4. Horrors all hearts appall; They quake, they shriek, they cry; Bid rocks and mountains on them fall; But rocks and mountains fly.

5. Ye willful, wanton fools, Let danger make you wise: Carnal professors, careless souls, Unclose your lazy eyes. 6. Tis time we all awake; The dreadful day draws near; Sinners, your proud presumption check, And stop your wild career.

7. Now is the accepted time; To Christ for mercy fly: O, turn, repent, and trust in him, And you shall never die. 8. Great God, in whom we live, Prepare us for that day: Help us in Jesus to believe, To watch, and wait, and pray.