Extollation (Walter Janes)
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-07-25). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 44 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: 1803 version. Note shapes added. Five more pairs of stanzas included from Isaac Watts' paraphrase of Psalm 148, Part 2.
General Information
Title: Extollation
Composer: Walter Janes
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Lyricist: Anne Steele
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: First published in The Massachusetts Harmony, 1803, pp. 46-47. Considerably revised by Janes in 1807. Words in 1803 from Isaac Watts, 1719, paraphrase of Psalm 148, Part 2, with twelve stanzas (Janes used the first two). Words in 1807 from Anne Steele, 1760, entitled Praise, with six stanzas (Janes used stanzas three and four).
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 148.
English text 1. Praise ye the Lord, let praise employ |
3. Awake the trumpet's piercing found, |
5. Let the loud cymbal sound on high |
- Praise by Anne Steele, 1760, as printed in Jeremy Belknap's Sacred Poetry, 1795