Madison (Daniel Read)

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  • CPDL #32146:       
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-06-01).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 31 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Oval-note edition. Five more pairs of stanzas of Watts' paraphrase added below. Re-formatted 2015-09-06. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
  • CPDL #32147:   
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-06-01).   Score information: Letter (landscape), 1 page, 31 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Music as in 1807, note shapes added (4-shape). Five more pairs of stanzas of Watts' paraphrase added below. Re-formatted 2015-09-06.

General Information

Title: Madison
First Line: Great Shepherd of thine Israel
Composer: Daniel Read
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SacredHymn   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: First published in The Columbian Harmonist, 1807, p. 48. Words by Isaac Watts, 1709, his paraphrase of Psalm 80, in twelve stanzas. Read used the first two stanzas of Watts' paraphrase in his composition.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 80.