Norway (Simeon Jocelin)

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• (Posted 2018-11-07)  CPDL #51733:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-11-07).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 44 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Converted to two staffs: Former Tenor becomes Soprano, up one octave; former Treble becomes Tenor, down one octave; former Counter becomes Alto without transposition; Bass remains, without transposition. All four stanzas included.

• (Posted 2018-11-04)  CPDL #51707:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-11-04).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 264 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition, as written in 1818. All four stanzas of Watts' paraphrase included.

• (Posted 2018-11-04)  CPDL #51706:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-11-04).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 246 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). All four stanzas of Watts' paraphrase included.

General Information

Title: Norway
First Line: Death, like an overflowing stream
Composer: Simeon Jocelin
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1818 in The New Haven Collection of Sacred Music, p. 41
Description: Unusual harmony, more like the mid-twentieth century than the early nineteenth. Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, paraphrase of Psalm 90, Part 1, with four stanzas.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 90.