Dawning Light (Oliver Holden)
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-07-14). Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 69 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4=shape), otherwise as written in 1800. The other five stanzas of Watts' paraphrase are included, renumbered to fit Holden's composition.
General Information
Title: Dawning Light
First Line: From the first dawning light
Composer: Oliver Holden
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 66. 86 (S.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1800
Description: First published in Plain Psalmody, 1800, p. 26, voiced for Treble-Tenor-Bass. Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, his paraphrase of Psalm 25, in six stanzas. Holden used stanza three in his composition.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 25.