Windham (Daniel Read)
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- (Posted 2015-03-18) CPDL #34816:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-03-18). Score information: 7 x 10 in (landscape), 1 page, 46 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Version of 1804. The other three stanzas of Watts' hymn added below.
- (Posted 2008-06-29) CPDL #17392:
- Editor: Tim Henderson (submitted 2008-06-29). Score information: A4, 1 page, 193 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Version taken from Missouri Harmony
General Information
Title: Windham
First Line: Broad is the road that leads to death
Composer: Daniel Read
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1785 in The American Singing-Book, Edition 1, p. 55; revised by Read in 1804
2nd published: 1841 in Carmina Sacra (Lowell Mason), no. 74b
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1709, his Hymn 158 of Book 2.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Broad is the road that leads to death.