Amboy (Daniel Read)

From ChoralWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Music files

L E G E N D Disclaimer How to download
ICON SOURCE
Icon_pdf.gif Pdf
Icon_snd.gif Midi
MusicXML.png MusicXML
File details.gif File details
Question.gif Help
  • (Posted 2014-12-07)  CPDL #33611:       
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-12-07).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 26 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Oval-note edition.
  • (Posted 2014-12-07)  CPDL #33612:     
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-12-07).   Score information: 7 x 10 in (landscape), 1 page, 51 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape).

General Information

Title: Amboy
First Line: I am not concerned to know
Composer: Daniel Read
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred   Meter: 77. 77

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1785 in The American Singing-Book, Edition 1
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1706, his Lyric Poems, True Riches.

External websites:

Original text and translations

English.png English text

I am not concerned to know
What tomorrow fate will do:
'Tis enough that I can say
I've possessed myself to-day:
Then, if haply midnight-death
Seize my flesh and stop my breath,
Yet tomorrow I shall be
Heir to the best part of me.