Columbia (Alexander Johnson)

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• (Posted 2017-03-15)  CPDL #43559:   

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-03-15).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 76 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: As arranged by James P. Carrell, 1821, entitled Melody, in C Major. Words by an anonymous author, before 1818.

General Information

Title: Columbia
Composer: Alexander Johnson
Lyricist: Anonymous

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB

Genre: Sacred

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 attributed to Timothy Dwight, "As down a lone valley with cedars o'erspread."

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