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==Original text and translations==
==Original text and translations==
{{LinkText|The Almighty spake, and Gabriel sped}}


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Revision as of 18:28, 14 August 2016

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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-06-12).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 83 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-06-12).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 2 pages, 84 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape).

General Information

Title: Christmas
First Line: Shout, shout for joy, rejoice, O earth
Composer: Samuel Babcock
Lyricist: George Richards

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB

Genre: Sacred   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: First published in Babcock's The Middlesex Harmony, 1795, pp. 8-10. Words by George Richards, 1792, in six stanzas. Babcock used the fourth, fifth, and sixth stanzas of Richards' hymn in his composition.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at The Almighty spake, and Gabriel sped.