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- (Posted 2020-01-24) CPDL #56745:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2020-01-24). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 53 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Another stanza included from Barlow's paraphrase. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: Babylon (1786)
First Line: Along the banks where Babel's current flows
Composer: Alexander Gillet
Lyricist: Joel Barlow
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune Meter: 10 10. 10 10
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1786 in Andrew Law's The Rudiments of Music, Edition 2
Description: Very different tune from Babylon written by Gillet in 1794, though the same key and words. Words by Joel Barlow, 1786, paraphrase of Psalm 137, with six stanzas.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 137.