Seclusion (Oliver Holden)
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- (Posted 2016-01-12) CPDL #38144:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-01-12). Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 74 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Four-part version; Counter part written by B. C. Johnston, 2016. Note shapes added (4-shape). All four stanzas from Watts' hymn included.
- (Posted 2016-01-12) CPDL #38143:
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-01-12). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 55 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Three-part version, oval notes. Top two staffs switched, otherwise as written in 1803. Shown here without words.
General Information
Title: Seclusion
First Line: Man has a soul of vast desires
Composer: Oliver Holden
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: First published in The Charlestown Collection, 1803, p. 44, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass, with words that begin "Pale sorrow folds me in her arms," from an unknown source. Words substituted for these editions: Isaac Watts, 1709, Hymn 146 of Book 2, with four stanzas.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Man has a soul of vast desires.
English text
Pale sorrow folds me in her arms,
My rude notes tremble in the breeze:
Joy can no more inspire the lay,
Or syren pleasure's soft song please.
Words published with tune in 1803, from an unknown source