Ere I sleep, for every favour (Thomas Jarman)

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• (Posted 2015-01-15)  CPDL #34327:        (Sibelius 7)

Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2015-01-15).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 50 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: The order of parts in the source is Alto - Tenor - Air - Bass, with the Alto and Tenor parts given in the treble clef an octave above sounding pitch. Only the first verse of the text is given in the source: subsequent verses have here been added editorially.

General Information

Title: Ere I sleep, for every favour
Composer: Thomas Jarman
Tune: Evening Song
Lyricist: John Cennick

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 8. 33. 6

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1837 in The Congregational Harmonist, no. 30, p. 529
and listed in the 'Weekly List of New Publications' on p. 192 of The Musical World, No. 64, Vol 5, of 2 June 1837. Description: This setting is attributed 'T. Jarman' in The Congregational Harmonist, where it is marked with a crossed circle, a symbol used in that book to indicate 'originals' (i.e. tunes not previously published). This is one of a pair of settings, of a morning and an evening hymn, both by John Cennick and both in the same metre, on p. 529 of The Congregational Harmonist: the morning hymn is Rise, my soul, adore thy Maker, set by Thomas Clark.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Ere I sleep, for every favour.