Bruce's Address (William Hauser)
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- (Posted 2018-07-23) CPDL #50647:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-07-23). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 44 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Notes in four-shape format, as originally published in 1848. All three stanzas of Waterbury's hymn included.
General Information
Title: Bruce's Address
First Line: Soldiers of the cross, arise / Lo, your leader
Composer: Anonymous
Arranger: William Hauser
Lyricist: Jared Waterbury
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred Meter: 77. 76. D
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1835 in Southern Harmony
2nd published: 1844 in The Sacred Harp
3rd published: 1848 in The Hesperian Harp, p. 430
Description: A Scottish traditional tune, arranged by William Walker in Southern Harmony, 1835, p. 132, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass; Walker added an Alto part in his Christian Harmony, 1867. Walker's arrangement for three parts was included in The Sacred Harp, p. 152, from 1844 through 1911. It was also arranged by William Hauser in his The Hesperian Harp, 1848. Words by an anonymous author, in Andrew Broaddus' Dover Selection of Spiritual Songs, 1828; this text is similar in the first two lines to Soldiers of the cross, arise / Lo, your leader from the skies written by Jared Waterbury, 1830.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Soldiers of the cross, arise / Lo, your leader.