Meditation (Samuel Wakefield)

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• (Posted 2023-12-28)  CPDL #78507:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-12-28).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 44 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Christian's Harp, 1837. Middle section re-barred to make ends of lines equal. Top staff ("Air") and middle staff exchanged. All six stanzas of Watts' hymn included. Note heads in four-shape format, as written in 1832-1837.

General Information

Title: Meditation
First Line: My soul, come meditate the day
Composer: Samuel Wakefield
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1832 in The Christian's Harp, Edition 2?, p. A21
    2nd published: 1841 in The Christian's Harp, Edition 6, p. A21
Description: Likely a folk hymn. Words by Isaac Watts, 1709, Hymn 61 of Book 2, with six stanzas. Wakefield supplied four of these stanzas.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at My soul, come meditate the day.