Calvary (Daniel Read)

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  • (Posted 2015-05-19)  CPDL #35464:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif MusicXML
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-05-19).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 87 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Oval note edition. The other eight stanzas of Watts' poem added below.
  • (Posted 2015-05-19)  CPDL #35463:  Icon_pdf.gif
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-05-19).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 93 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Three selected additional stanzas added below.

General Information

Title: Calvary
First Line: My thoughts, that often mount the skies
Composer: Daniel Read
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SacredHymn   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1785

Description: First published in The American Singing-Book, 1785, p. 44; revised 1794. Words by Isaac Watts, 1706, Lyric Poems, entitled Death and Eternity, nine stanzas.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at My thoughts, that often mount the skies.