Saturday, September 28, 2019

80 to go!


With the completion of this “beauty”, drawn from Freeman Lewis’ 1814 collection The Beauties of Harmony, there are 80 tunes left to typeset before the compilation is complete! Take a look at an example of a tune that will be included in the collection, Delight. Probably familiar to many of you from a more recent collection, how many realized that its dramatic and well-loved text was excerpted from a longer Isaac Watts paraphrase of the 121st Psalm? Give it a shot with some more verses sometime!


Check out the entire tune here: https://tinyurl.com/y5e94pa2



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