Delaware (Samuel Babcock)

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• (Posted 2016-05-25)  CPDL #39778:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-05-25).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 73 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition.

• (Posted 2016-05-24)  CPDL #39777:   

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-05-24).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 74 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Another pair of stanzas (20 and 21) included, from Watts' poem.

General Information

Title: Delaware
First Line: In awful state the conquering God
Composer: Samuel Babcock
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred, Set piece   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1795 in Babcock's The Middlesex Harmony, no. 1, p. 3-4
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1706, a poem entitled The Song of Angels Above, in 22 stanzas. Babcock used stanzas 18 and 19 in his composition.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Earth has detained me prisoner long.