Crostic (Jeremiah Ingalls)

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• (Posted 2017-04-03)  CPDL #43869:      MusicXML

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-04-03).   Score information: Unknown, 2 pages, 75 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Notes in shapenote format (4-shape). Original words, as printed in Ingalls 1805.

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Title: Crostic
Composer: Jeremiah Ingalls
Lyricist: Jeremiah Ingalls

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB

Genre: Sacred, Anthem

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: Written in 1797, published in Ingalls' Christian Harmony, 1805, pp. 10-11. Words by Ingalls, originally "eighteen stanzas" (Wells 1902), but only three printed in Ingalls 1805. The words are an acrostic on the name of Judith Brock, sung at her funeral in 1797 n Newbury, Vermont. She died at the age of 13 (Wells 1902).

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