Devotion (Alexander Johnson)
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-03-22). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 62 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note heads in four-shape format, as originally published. This three-part version from Moore's Columbian Harmony, 1825. Words by Isaac Watts, 1717, paraphrase of Psalm 92, Part 1, with seven stanzas. In Moore's version, as in Johnson's, the song starts with the second stanza of Watts' paraphrase. All seven stanzas included.
General Information
Title: Devotion
First Line: Sweet is the day of sacred rest
(Watts)
First Line: O, for a sweet inspiring ray
(Steele)
Composer: Alexander Johnson
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: STB
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: A folk hymn (see Music 2005), first published in Johnson's Tennessee Harmony, 1818. Reprinted in over 25 nineteenth-century tunebooks, with a variety of lyrics. The version from William Walker's Southern Harmony, 1835, with Alto part from Walker's Christian Harmony, 1867, has appeared on page 48 (top) in The Sacred Harp from 1860 to the present.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 92 and O for a sweet inspiring ray.