Wondrous Love (James Christopher)

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• (Posted 2018-06-10)  CPDL #50078:      WondrodLoveChristopher1840a.mscz   

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. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.

• CPDL #20466:     

Editor: Michael J. Oczko (submitted 2009-11-05).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 153 kB   Copyright: Personal

Arranger: Michael J. Oczko

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Edition notes: Arranged for organ and SATB. Also available in Polish with original text by Michael Oczko

• CPDL #12250:     

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.

External websites:

• Wikipedia article on What Wondrous Love Is This

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at What wondrous love is this.