Reflection (Ananias Davisson)
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-11-12). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 51 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Notes in four-shape format, as originally published. All eight stanzas of Watts' paraphrase included.
General Information
Title: Reflection
First Line: No sleep or slumber to his eyes
Composer: Ananias Davisson
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: Published in Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, 1813; rearranged by Davisson in The Kentucky Harmony, 1816. A folk hymn (Jackson 1953a, No. 122). Words by Isaac Watts, 1717, paraphrase of Psalm 132, Part 2, with eight stanzas.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 132.