My life's a shade (William Knapp)
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- Editor: Tim Henderson (submitted 2006-01-28). Score information: A4, 1 page, 43 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: late harmony version from Centenary Tunebook (1839)
CPDL #23073:
- Editor: Tim Henderson (submitted 2011-01-29). Score information: A4, 1 page, 386 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: "A Funeral Hymn" From New Church Melody: Being a Set of Anthems, Psalms, Hymns, &c. on Various Occasions. In Four Parts with a great Variety of other Anthems, Psalms, Hymns, &c. composed after a Method entirely new, and never printed before
1753
http://imslp.org/wiki/New_Church_Melody_%28Knapp,_William%29
General Information
Title: Macclesfield (My life's a shade)
Composer: William Knapp
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn
Language: English
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Published:
Description:
External websites:
Further verses at
http://stoddardfamily.home.comcast.net/L/138.html (Northern Harmony site) or
http://www.ccel.org/w/wesley/hymn/jwg09/jwg0931.html (Methodist Hymnbook)
Original text and translations
English text
My life's a shade; my days
Apace to death decline;
My Lord is life, he'll raise
My dust again, e'en mine.
Chorus:
Sweet truth to me, I shall arise
And with these eyes my savior see.