Dunlap's Creek (S. McFarland)

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• (Posted 2022-03-16)  CPDL #68448:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2022-03-16).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 39 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Beauties of Harmony, 1814. Note heads in four-shape format, as published in 1814.

• (Posted 2021-06-10)  CPDL #64722:     

Editor: Richard Mix (submitted 2021-06-10).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 28 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: For STB. Four verses of "We walk by faith, and not by sight", by Henry Alford. From Southern Harmony, 1854

General Information

Title: Dunlap's Creek
First Line: Think, O my soul, the dreadful day
Composer: S. McFarland
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TrCoTB
Genre: Sacred, Folk hymn, Hymn tune   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1814 without attribution in The Beauties of Harmony, Edition 1
    2nd published: 1816 attributed to "S. M'Farland" in The Beauties of Harmony, Edition 2
    3rd published: 1820 in Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony (Ananias Davisson), Edition 1
    4th published: 1831 in The Virginia Harmony (Clayton and Carrell), p. 16
    5th published: 1832 in A Compilation of Genuine Church Music, p. 63
    6th published: 1848 in The Hesperian Harp
    7th published: 1846 in Southern and Western Pocket Harmonist, p. 63
    8th published: 1854 in Southern Harmony, p. 276a
Description: An American folk hymn from the early 19th century. Originally published in Lewis (1814-1816) for four voices, Treble-Counter-Tenor-Bass; Davisson (1830) copied McFarland's four-part arrangement. Clayton and Carrell (1831) reduced this to three parts, Treble-Tenor-Bass; they kept McFarland's Tenor and Bass but wrote a new Treble part. Funk (1832) also reduced it to three parts, but used McFarland's Treble, Tenor, and Bass. Hauser (1848) copied McFarland's original music, for four parts. Walker (1846 and following) used the same three-part reduction as Funk. All these versions were published in shapenote format (4-shape).

Words originally published in 1814 are Think, O my soul, the dreadful day by Isaac Watts, 1709, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Hymn 62 of Book 2, the fourth of six stanzas; these words were also used in Virginia Harmony (1831). Davisson (1820) used different Isaac Watts words from Book 2, Hymn 65, When I can read my title clear. Funk (1832) used the same Watts hymn as McFarland, but the first stanza, Sing to the Lord, ye heavenly hosts. Hauser (1848) used the same words as Funk. Walker (1846 and following) used another Watts hymn from Book 2, Hymn 94, My God, my portion and my love.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Sing to the Lord, ye heavenly hosts, When I can read my title clear, My God, my portion, and my love, and We walk by faith, and not by sight.