Funeral Hymn - French, Jacob

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"Words by an anonymous author, in ''The New-England Primer'', starting around 1691. "For one hundred years this Primer was ''the'' schoolbook of the dissenters of America, and for another hundred, it was frequently reprinted. In the unfavorable locality (in a sectarian sense) of Philadelphia, the accounts of Benjamin Franklin and David Hall show that between 1749 and 1766, or a period of seventeen years, that firm sold thirty-seven thousand one hundred copies. Livermore stated in 1849 that within the last dozen years '100,000 copies of modern editions . . . have been circulated.' An over conservative claim for it is to estimate an annual average sale of twenty thousand copies during a period of one hundred and fifty years, or total sales of three million copies" (Ford 1897). Jacob French probably learned to read from this book."

⌛ Period → Classical ◈ Genre → Sacred

♯ Key A minor

⁄ Time Signature 2/2

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Beginner

↕ Range G2 – E5

♩ Tempo maestoso (90)

◷ Duration ~1 min

¶ Language → English

Measures 23

Texture mixed texture

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 1

CPDL # 48618

Editor Barry Johnston

Posted 2018-01-31

License Public Domain

♫Pitch Ranges

Tr.

G4 – E5

C4 – A4

D3 – G4

G2 – C4

¶Lyrics / Text

I in the burying place may see Graves shorter there than I; From death's arrest no age is free; Young children too may die. My God, may such an awful sight, Awakening be to me! Oh! that by early grace I might For death prepared be. –''The New-England Primer'', ca. 1785