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• (Posted 2019-09-30)  CPDL #55483:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2019-09-30).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 68 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Good Shepherd, transcribed from The Christian Lyre, 1830. Words by John Granade, 1804, "Let thy kingdom, blessed Savior," with seven stanzas; only the first stanza here. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.

• (Posted 2019-09-30)  CPDL #55482:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2019-09-30).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 65 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Hallelujah, for two voices (Tenor-Bass). Transcribed from Wyeth's Repository, Part Second (1813). Notes in four-shape format, as published in 1813. One stanza of Robinson's hymn included. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.

• CPDL #13508:     

Editor: Noel Stoutenburg (submitted 2007-01-29).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 16 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Nettleton. This is a hymn setting (melody and harmony) only. For a hymn using this tune, see Mighty God while.

General Information

Title: Hallelujah
First Line: Come, thou fount of every blessing
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist: Robert Robinson

Number of voices: 2vv   Voicing: TB

Genre: Unknown   Meter: 87. 87. D

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1813 in Wyeth's Repository, Part Second
    2nd published: 1818 in Kentucky Harmonist
    3rd published: 1820 in The Missouri Harmony
    4th published: 1830 in The Christian Lyre
    5th published: 1832 in The Sacred Harp (John H. Hickok)
    6th published: 1832 in A Compilation of Genuine Church Music

Description: A folk hymn (Jackson 1953a no. 101, Lowens 1964). First published in Wyeth's Repository, Part Second (1813), for two voices., with Robert Robinson's words, "Come thou fount of every blessing." This was reprinted in Metcalf's Kentucky Harmonist (1818) and The Missouri Harmony (1820), both in the same two-part version. It was rearranged by Deodatus Dutton as Good Shepherd in The Christian Lyre, 1830, again for two parts. John H. Hickock in his Sacred Harp (1832) copied Good Shepherd from The Christian Lyre, changing the tune slightly but restoring the original words – the first time the composition begins to look like the hymn tune Nettleton of modern hymn books. The tune was arranged for three parts by Joseph Funk in his Compilation of Genuine Church Music (1832); this has been repeated in many editions of Harmonia Sacra to the present, acquiring an Alto part in 1869.

In four-part two-staff SATB format with European harmony, It acquired the name Nettleton before the 1850s; it appeared in Temple Melodies in 1851 – published by Lowell Mason, Jr., which suggests that Lowell Mason, Sr., may have had a hand in applying the name Nettleton to this tune. (Asahel Nettleton was an influential religious figure and compiler of a popular book of hymns, Village Hymns for Social Worship (1824), but without music.) The tune appeared in The Plymouth Collection (1855) as Bartimeus, with the John Newton words, "Mercy, O thou Son of David." Bliss and Sankey, Gospel Hymns and Sacred Songs [No. 1] (1875) say Nettleton is an "Old Melody, 1812."

Words by Robert Robinson, 1758, amended by Martin Madan, 1760.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Come, thou fount of every blessing, Mercy, O thou son of David, and Whither goest thou, pilgrim stranger.