Pine-Hill (Daniel Belknap)
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- (Posted 2024-07-30) CPDL #81452:
- Editor: Antonio Higgins (submitted 2024-07-30). Score information: Letter (landscape), 1 page, 43 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Reformatting of #37704. Oval-note edition, as published in 1797. The original, dissonant pitches are preserved. Four selected verses are included from the Watts hymn.
- (Posted 2015-11-28) CPDL #37704:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-11-28). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 61 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Oval note edition. A few edits, otherwise as written in 1797. Seven additional stanzas included selected from Watts' poem, after stanza 14.
- (Posted 2015-11-28) CPDL #37703:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-11-28). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 90 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Seven additional stanzas included selected from Watts' poem, after stanza 14.
General Information
Title: Pine-Hill
First Line: In the full choir a broken string
Composer: Daniel Belknap
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: TrCtTB
Genre: Sacred Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1797 in The Harmonist's Companion, no. 12, p. 14a
Description: Melody in the Tenor. Words by Isaac Watts, 1706, Horae Lyricae, entitled The Song of Angels Above, in 22 stanzas. Belknap used stanza 14 of Watts' poem in his composition.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Earth has detained me prisoner long.