Messiah (Samuel Wakefield)

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(Posted 2024-03-02) CPDL #79340:

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2024-03-02). Score information: 7 x 10 inches, 1 page, 47 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Christian Harmony (William Walker), 1867; Alto part written by William Walker, 1867, for TrATB. Notes in Aikin's seven-shape format, as used in modern editions of The Christian Harmony. First stanza by Charles Wesley, as in Bozrah 1831 and 1835; second and third stanzas by Harriet Auber, 1829, the first two stanzas of her paraphrase of Psalm 24, with three stanzas.

(Posted 2024-02-26) CPDL #79288:

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2024-02-26). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 42 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Christian Harmony (William Walker), 1867; Alto part written by William Walker, 1867, for TrATB. Notes in Walkers' seven-shape format, as published in 1867. First stanza by Charles Wesley, as in Bozrah 1831 and 1835; second and third stanzas by Harriet Auber, 1829, the first two stanzas of her paraphrase of Psalm 24, with three stanzas.

(Posted 2024-02-26) CPDL #79286:

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2024-02-26). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 41 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: The Traveler, transcribed from The Sacred Harp, Fourth Edition, 1869, p. 108. Appears on the same page in most following editions of The Sacred Harp up to 1991. Arranged by Absalom Ogletree for three parts TrTB. Notes in four-shape format, as published 1869 to the present. Words by William Collyer, ca. 1840, "Haste, traveler, haste! the night comes on". Collyer's hymn was amended and augmented by Ogletree, who changed three of Collyer's 88. 88. (L. M.) stanzas to 77. 77. D. by removing one word in each line (or rewording it), and adding a refrain. Only two stanzas included here.

(Posted 2024-02-24) CPDL #79274:

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2024-02-24). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 44 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Bozrah, transcribed from The Virginia Harmony, 1831. Notes in four-shape format, as published in 1825-1835. Counter part written by B. C. Johnston, 2024, for TrCtTB. Another pair of Wesley's stanzas added.

(Posted 2021-03-10) CPDL #63421:

Editor: Joseph Knapicius (submitted 2021-03-10). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 86 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: From The Virginia Harmony, 1831. Arranged by Joseph Knapicius, for Mezzo or Baritone-Bass solo and Piano accompaniment.

General Information

Title: Messiah
First Line: Who is this who comes from far
Composer: Samuel Wakefield
Lyricist: Charles Wesley

Number of voices: 2vv Voicing: TB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune, Folk hymn Meter: 77. 77. D

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1825 in The Ecclesiastic Harmony (Samuel Wakefield)
2nd published: 1831 in The Virginia Harmony, as "Bozrah", p. 113
3rd published: 1832 in The Christian's Harp (Samuel Wakefield), as "Messiah", Edition 2?, p. 51
4th published: 1835 in Southern Harmony and later editions, as "Bozrah", Edition 1, p. 39
5th published: 1867 in The Christian Harmony (William Walker), as "Bozrah", p. 245
6th published: 1869 in The Sacred Harp, Fourth Edition, as The Traveler (Absalom Ogletree), p. 108
7th published: 1911 in The Sacred Harp, as "The Traveler", p. 108
Description: Probably derived from a folk hymn, first published by Samuel Wakefield in 1825. The harmonization by James P. Carrell for three voices in 1831 was reprinted by William Walker in 1835. Walker added an Alto part in 1867; that four-part version has been repeated in recent versions of The Christian Harmony. A version of this tune for was published in the fourth edition of The Sacred Harp in 1869, arranged by Absalom Ogletree; this three-part version has appeared in The Sacred Harp on page 108 to the present. Messiah (1825), Bozrah (1825-1835), and The Traveler (1869 to the present) appear in four-shape notation. Bozrah (1867 and later editions of The Christian Harmony) appears in six-shape notation – at first, Walker's 1869 six shapes, later Jesse Aikin's 1847 six shapes. So far, no nineteenth-century version is known except in shape notes.

Words to Messiah and Bozrah by Charles Wesley, 1745, Hymns for the Lord's Supper, Hymn 17, with four stanzas. Carrell (1831) and Walker (1835) combined Wesley's first two 77.77. stanzas to form one 77.77.D. stanza. Instead of Wesley's second stanza, Walker (1867) inserts the first two stanzas of Harriet Auber's paraphrase of Psalm 24, "Wide ye heavenly gates unfold".

Words to The Traveler by William B. Collyer, in Rippon's Selection, Edition 29, 1829, altered to "Traveler haste, the night comes on".

References

Steel, David Warren, and Richard H. Hulan. 2010. The Makers of the Sacred Harp. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. 322 pp. (Additions and corrections online)

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Who is this who comes from far, Psalm 24, and Haste, traveler, haste! the night comes on.