Vernon (Amzi Chapin)

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• (Posted 2024-08-07)  CPDL #81526:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2024-08-07).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 71 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Upper staff with incorrect clef; apparently treble clef; words incorrectly attributed to Isaac Watts. Transcribed from Kentucky Harmonist, 1818. Notes in four-shape format, as in 1818. Words by Charles Wesley, 1742, Hymns and Sacred Poems, entitled "Wrestling with Jacob"; four of Wesley's stanzas included.

• (Posted 2017-07-08)  CPDL #45338:     

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-07-08).   Score information: Unknown, 2 pages, 58 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: A comparison of the tunes (four parts) of five versions. Notes in four-shape format.

1. Jeremiah Ingalls' Farewell Hymn (D minor, 4:4), converted to the timing and rhythm of Chapin's arrangement
2. Vernon (Amzi Chapin), 1813 (E minor, 2:4)
3. Vernon in William Moore, 1825 (E minor, 2:4)
4. Vernon in William Walker, 1830 (E minor, 2:4)
5. Vernon in The Sacred Harp, 1860 (E minor, 2:4)
   

• (Posted 2017-07-08)  CPDL #45335:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-07-08).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 38 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Notes in four-shape format, as originally published in 1813. All six stanzas of Watts' hymn included.

General Information

Title: Vernon
First Line: Lord, what a heaven of saving grace
Composer: Jeremiah Ingalls
Arranger: Amzi Chapin
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1805 in Ingalls' The Christian Harmony, pp. 139-140
    2nd published: 1813 in Patterson's Church Music
    3rd published: 1818 in Kentucky Harmonist (Samuel Metcalf)
    4th published: 1825 in Columbian Harmony (William Moore)
    5th published: 1835 in Southern Harmony
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1709, Hymn 16 of Book 2, with six stanzas. This tune was written as Farewell Hymn by Jeremiah Ingalls in 1790, for use at the funeral of a child; first published in 1805. Amzi Chapin's 1813 version was apparently independent of Ingalls'. Amzi Chapin changed the key from D minor to E minor, renamed it, and substituted different words by Charles Wesley (Come, O thou traveler unknown) in Samuel Metcalf's Kentucky Harmonist, 1818. This was repeated and reduced to three parts by William Walker in Southern Harmony (p. 34) in 1830. The version in William Moore 1825 (four parts, Wesley's words) was restored in The Sacred Harp (p. 55b) from 1844 through 1911; the 1991 edition has it on page 95b.

See also:

Come, O thou Traveler unknown (Traditional), a different harmonization of this tune in 20th-century hymnal format.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Lord, what a heaven of saving grace and Come, O thou traveler unknown.