Dover (Amos Pilsbury)
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2024-10-28). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 52 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: "The Child of Grace", transcribed from The Sacred Harp, 1911, p. 77. Note heads in four-shape format, as in 1911. Four stanzas of Wesley's hymn included.
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-05-12). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 75 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Transcribed from Pilsbury 1799, with several edits. Oval note edition. Five more stanzas included, selected from Wesley's hymn.
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-05-12). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 68 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Transcribed from Pilsbury 1799, with several edits. Note shapes added (4-shape). Five more stanzas included, selected from Wesley's hymn.
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-02-03). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 68 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Arranged by James P. Carrell. Note heads converted to oval shapes. The other seven stanzas of Wesley's hymn included.
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-02-03). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 56 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Arranged by James P. Carrell. Note heads in shapenote (4-shape) format, as published in 1821. The other seven stanzas of Wesley's hymn included.
General Information
Title: Dover
First Line: And let this feeble body fail
Composer: Amos Pilsbury
Lyricist: Charles Wesley
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred Meter: 86. 86. D (C.M.D.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1799 in Amos Pilsbury's The United States Sacred Harmony, p. 30
2nd published: 1821 in Songs of Zion
3rd published: 1844 in The Sacred Harp, p. 77
4th published: 1911 in The Sacred Harp, p. 77
Description: Words by Charles Wesley, 1759, Funeral Hymns No. 3, with nine stanzas. This tune was considerably revised by James P. Carrell in 1821, who retitled it Pilgrim, moved it to A minor, and added new words, Charles Wesley's "How happy every child of grace" (1759). It was re-arranged by Elisha J. King as "The Child of Grace" on p. 77 in The Sacred Harp for three parts in 1844, where it appears to the present day; a new Alto part was added in 1911 by William Cooper. A description of the history of this tune is given in David Music (1995).
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at And let this feeble body fail and How happy every child of grace.