Hamshire
For Good Friday
( He dies! He dies! The heav'nly lover dies ; Come, saints, and drop a tear or two ; Here's love and grief beyond degree )
Read, Daniel (1757-1836) [ USA ]
Edition
Published by
Broude Brothers Ltd.
[USA]
, 1974
; in Western Wind American tune-book : Vocal music of the Revolutionary and Federal Era
(276 p.)
Number of pages :
9
Editor or author of the restitution:
Bennett, Lawrence
Type of material:
Full score
ISMN/ISBN :
0845000764
Description
Text in:
English
Epoque:
18th century
(1750-1799)
Genre-Style-Form:
Sacred ; Anthem
Type of Choir:
SATB (4 mixed voices )
Instrumentation:
Small instrumental ensemble
(4 instrumental part(s))
Instruments:
Violin (2) ; Viola (1) ; Cello (1)
Difficulty choir (incr.from 1 to 5):
3
Difficulty conductor (incr.from A to E):
C
Tonality:
A major ; A minor
Duration:
3.5 min.
Liturgical Use:
Good Friday ; Easter Day ; Lent
Musicological Sources:
First appeared in Read's collection "The Columbian harmonist no. 3" (New Haven, 1795).
Source of text:
Watts's Horae lyricae (London, 1706)
LOCATION(s) in LIBRARIES that are member of MUSICA
Princeton, USA
Talbott Library, Westminster Choir College of Rider University
101 Walnut Lane, PRINCETON, NJ 08540; Ph. (+1) 609-921-7100
Consultable under :
M2081.W523 B7 (1 copies)