Barrington (Anonymous)

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• (Posted 2023-09-27)  CPDL #75793:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-09-27).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 60 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Waterhouse Manuscript, copied 1780. Round notes as in original. A few editorial changes. Words as in original.

• (Posted 2023-09-27)  CPDL #75791:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-09-27).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 2 pages, 69 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Waterhouse Manuscript, copied 1780. Note shapes added (4-shape). A few editorial changes. Words as in original.

General Information

Title: Barrington
First Line: Stay, my beloved with me here
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist: Elizabeth Rowe
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TrATB
Genre: Sacred, Set piece   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript 1780 in The Waterhouse Manuscript, no. 2
Description: A set piece, first appearing in The Waterhouse Manuscript, copied May 30, 1780 by Susanna Heath, otherwise unknown. Not in The Hymn Tune Index. Crawford and McKay (1974) say the composer is Anonymous. The melody (Tenor) in the 3:2 section probably derives from a Folk hymn; harmonization and expansion in the cut-time section has been composed. Words by Elizabeth Rowe ca. 1717, one stanza only, based on portions of The Song of Solomon.

Incipits: 6U123(6)53(2)13-33(45)55(6)53(21)D76-U33(43)25(65)43(2)1(2)3(4323)-355123(4)3(2)3)-3(2)1(D767)U12(3)4(3)1D76

Original text and translations

English text

Stay, my beloved with me here,
Stay till the morning star appear:
Stay till the dusky shadows fly
Before the day’s illustrious eye.