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*{{PostedDate|2017-03-15}} {{CPDLno|43560}} [[Media:MelodyJohnson1818bpr.pdf|{{pdf}}]] [[Media:MelodyJohnson1818bpr.mid|{{mid}}]] [[Media:MelodyJohnson1818bpr.mxl| | *{{PostedDate|2017-03-15}} {{CPDLno|43560}} [[Media:MelodyJohnson1818bpr.pdf|{{pdf}}]] [[Media:MelodyJohnson1818bpr.mid|{{mid}}]] [[Media:MelodyJohnson1818bpr.mxl|{{XML}}]] | ||
{{Editor|Barry Johnston|2017-03-15}}{{ScoreInfo|Letter|1|75}}{{Copy|Public Domain}} | {{Editor|Barry Johnston|2017-03-15}}{{ScoreInfo|Letter|1|75}}{{Copy|Public Domain}} | ||
:'''Edition notes:''' Note heads converted to oval shapes. | :'''Edition notes:''' Note heads converted to oval shapes. As arranged by [[James P. Carrell]], 1821, entitled ''Melody'', in C Major. Words by an anonymous author, before 1818. {{MXL}} | ||
*{{PostedDate|2017-03-15}} {{CPDLno|43559}} [[Media:MelodyJohnson1818a.pdf|{{pdf}}]] | *{{PostedDate|2017-03-15}} {{CPDLno|43559}} [[Media:MelodyJohnson1818a.pdf|{{pdf}}]] | ||
{{Editor|Barry Johnston|2017-03-15}}{{ScoreInfo|7 x 10 inches (landscape)|1|76}}{{Copy|Public Domain}} | {{Editor|Barry Johnston|2017-03-15}}{{ScoreInfo|7 x 10 inches (landscape)|1|76}}{{Copy|Public Domain}} | ||
:'''Edition notes:''' As arranged by [[James P. Carrell]], 1821, entitled ''Melody'', in C Major. Words by an anonymous author, before 1818. | :'''Edition notes:''' Note heads in four-shape format. As arranged by [[James P. Carrell]], 1821, entitled ''Melody'', in C Major. Words by an anonymous author, before 1818. | ||
==General Information== | ==General Information== |
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-03-15). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 75 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note heads converted to oval shapes. As arranged by James P. Carrell, 1821, entitled Melody, in C Major. Words by an anonymous author, before 1818. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-03-15). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 76 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note heads in four-shape format. As arranged by James P. Carrell, 1821, entitled Melody, in C Major. Words by an anonymous author, before 1818.
General Information
Title: Columbia
First Line: As down a lone valley with cedars o'erspread
First Line: O how I have longed for the coming of God
Composer: Alexander Johnson
Lyricists: Timothy Dwight and Anonymous
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: STB
Genre: Secular
Genre: Sacred Meter: 11 11. 11 11
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: First published in The Tennessee Harmony, 1818, in D minor, for three voices (Treble-Tenor-Bass); reprinted in William Walker's Southern Harmony, 1835. Arranged by James P. Carrell in 1821, in C Major, re-titled Melody. Possibly this is a folk hymn, source for both Johnson and Carrell – see Southern Harmony (1845), 154 Columbia.
Original words by Timothy Dwight, poem entitled "Columbia", in six stanzas. Johnson used the sixth stanza of Dwight's poem in his composition.
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Original text and translations
English text Timothy Dwight, Columbia, 1789 |
Anonymous, before 1818 |