Wondrous Love (James Christopher)
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- (Posted 2018-06-10) CPDL #50078: WondrousLoveChristopher1840a.mxl
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-06-10). Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 47 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Notes in four-shape format, as originally written in 1840. Words to first stanza as in Southern Harmony, 1840; three other stanzas included, from Mercer's Cluster, 1823, that William Walker used often.
- Editor: Michael J. Oczko (submitted 2009-11-05). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 153 kB Copyright: Personal
- Arranger: Michael J. Oczko
- Edition notes: Arranged for organ and SATB. Also available in Polish with original text by Michael Oczko
- Editor: Mark Hamilton Dewey (submitted 2006-08-10). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 49 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Unattributed 4-part harmonization.
General Information
Title: Wondrous Love
First Line: What wondrous love is this
Arranger: James Christopher
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred Meter: 66. 63. 66. 66. 63
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: Tune first published in Southern Harmony, Edition 4, 1840, p. 240, for three voices, with notes in four-shape format, attributed to (James) Christopher. The tune is based on The Ballad of Captain Kidd, an eighteenth-century English song (Jackson 1953a). Porter and Garst (1979) found more than twenty tunes in this unusual meter, including the present one.
References:
- Jackson, George Pullen. 1953a. Spiritual Folk-Songs of Early America, Second Edition. Locust Valley, New York: J. J. Augustin. 254 pp.
- Porter, Ellen Jane, and John F. Garst. 1979. More tunes in the Captain Kidd meter. The Hymn 30(3): 252-262.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at What wondrous love is this.
- Barry Johnston editions
- Michael J. Oczko editions
- Michael J. Oczko compositions
- Michael J. Oczko arrangements
- Mark Hamilton Dewey editions
- First Lines (English)
- James Christopher compositions
- James Christopher arrangements
- STB
- 3-part choral music
- Sacred music
- 66. 63. 66. 66. 63
- Works in English
- A cappella
- Four-shape note editions
- Sheet music
- Romantic music