America (Truman Wetmore)

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• (Posted 2020-09-22)  CPDL #60648:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2020-09-22).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 44 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Words to first stanza as in Benham 1798; the last stanza added from Barlow 1790.

General Information

Title: America
Composer: Truman Wetmore
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Unknown

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1798

Description: America was reprinted in many American tunebooks in the early to middle nineteenth century, notably The Easy Instructor (1801), Wyeth's Repository (1810), Patterson's Church Music (1813), The Beauties of Harmony (1814), Kentucky Harmony (1816), The Kentucky Harmonist (1818), The Missouri Harmony (1820), Moore's Columbian Harmony (1825), A Compilation of Genuine Church Music (1832), Southern Harmony (1835), and White and King's The Sacred Harp (1844). It is still on p. 36 of The Sacred Harp to the present. Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, paraphrase of Psalm 23, Part 3, stanza five of six; as amended by Joel Barlow, 1790.

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