Samanthra (R. D. Humphreys)

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• (Posted 2018-11-07)  CPDL #51729:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-11-07).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 50 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Notes in four-shape format, as originally published in 1822. An eighth rest added to the first measure (as in Walker 1846), otherwise as written in 1822. Stanzas start with Swain's fourth stanza, then the first, second, third, fifth, and sixth. as in Swain 1791 (not Walker 1846).

General Information

Title: Samanthra
Composer: R. D. Humphreys
Lyricist: Joseph Swain

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Unknown

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: Reprinted in William Walker's Southern and Western Pocket Harmonist, 1846, pp. 58-59, and again in his Southern Harmony, Ed. 7, 1854. Words by Joseph Swain, 1791, with nine stanzas. Humphreys uses the fourth stanza of Swain's hymn in his composition. In Walker 1846, the fourth stanza is followed by the first stanza, then the second; the four stanzas that follow are quite different from Swain's original, by an unknown author.

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