The Rose Tree (Ananias Davisson)

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  • (Posted 2018-08-10)  CPDL #50806:         
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-08-10).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 54 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Arranged by William Walker. Land of Pleasure, from Southern Harmony, 1835. Note heads converted to oval shapes. Four-part version; Counter part written by B. C. Johnston, 2018. All seven stanzas included, as in Southern Harmony.
  • (Posted 2018-08-10)  CPDL #50805:   
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-08-10).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 49 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Arranged by William Walker. Land of Pleasure, from Southern Harmony, 1835. Notes in four-shape format, as published in 1835. Four-part version; Counter part written by B. C. Johnston, 2018. All seven stanzas included, as in Southern Harmony.
  • (Posted 2017-11-19)  CPDL #47552:       
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-11-19).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 73 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Note heads converted to oval shapes. All seven stanzas included.
  • (Posted 2017-11-19)  CPDL #47545:   
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-11-19).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 49 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Notes in four-shape format, as originally published. All seven stanzas included.

General Information

Title: The Rose Tree
First Line: There is a land of pleasure
Composer: Ananias Davisson
Lyricist: Anonymous

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred   Meter: 78. 78. D

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1813 in Wyeth's Repository, Part Second
    2nd published: 1820 in Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony, Edition 1
    3rd published: 1835 in Southern Harmony, p. 63, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass
Description: Words by an anonymous author, before 1810, often with seven stanzas. Arranged by William Walker in 1835, as Land of Pleasure.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at There is a land of pleasure.