True Devotion (Oliver Holden)
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- (Posted 2021-09-28) CPDL #65925:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2021-09-28). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 43 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Oval notes, as written in 1792. Since Holden used the last stanza of Watts' poem, no further stanzas are appropriate.
- (Posted 2021-09-28) CPDL #65924:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2021-09-28). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 52 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Since Holden used the last stanza of Watts' poem, no further stanzas are appropriate.
General Information
Title: True Devotion
First Line: I am confined to earth no more
Composer: Oliver Holden
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1792 in Holden's American Harmony
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1706, in Horae Lyricae, poem entitled The Song of Angels Above, 22 stanzas, last stanza. Holden amended the third line, from "bless the God that I adore" to "bless the God my soul adores."
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Earth has detained me prisoner long.