How can I keep from singing (Robert Lowry)

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•  Posted on 2024-04-07(Posted 2024-04-07)  CPDL #80023:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2024-04-07).   Score information: A5, 1 page, 37 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: This is the arrangement of CPDL 54925, transposed into two staffs; in F major. All three 1868 stanzas included.

•  Posted on 2024-04-07(Posted 2024-04-07)  CPDL #80022:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2024-04-07).   Score information: A5, 1 page, 38 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Bright Jewels for the Sunday School, 1869; in G major. Words by Pauline T., 1868, all three stanzas included.

• (Posted 2019-07-29)  CPDL #54925:       

Editor: John Christensen (submitted 2019-07-29).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 253 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Arrangement (by ?) for SATB in four staffs.

• (Posted 2012-01-24)  CPDL #25460:       

Editor: Glenn O'Brien (submitted 2012-01-24).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 13 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Public domain, courtesy of the Cyber Hymnal.

General Information

Title: How Can I Keep From Singing
Composer: Robert Lowry
Lyricist: Pauline T.

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 87. 87. D

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1860
Description: Music by Robert Lowry in 1869, which was reprinted in several Christian hymnbooks in the 19th and 20th centuries; words published August 7, 1868, in The New York Observer, titled "Always Rejoicing", attributed to "Pauline T.". There have been many rearrangements and revisions of both music and words from the middle 20th century on.

See also:

• How can I keep from singing? (Patrick O'Shea) – Arrangement of Lowry's music, with 1960s secular words
  

External websites:

• View the Wikipedia article on How can I keep from singing (Robert Lowry).

• Original music and words, from Cyber Hymnal

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at How can I keep from singing?.