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LyrReq: O Lovely Appearance of Death
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Subject: O Lovely Appearance of Death From: GUEST,Moose Tomson Date: 22 Jun 02 - 03:41 PM I have been trying to find words and music to the early methodist spiritual sung, a capeela by Hally Wood on Electra (i believe) oh so many years ago. Can any one help? |
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Subject: RE: O Lovely Appearance of From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 22 Jun 02 - 04:03 PM Only four lines found. (I really don't want to see more!) O lovely appearance of death! What sight upon earth is so fair! Not all the gay pageants that breathe Can with a dead body compare! Yes, on Elektra 10. I have Elek 8 with Cynthis Gooding; I wish I had more of these old recordings. |
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Subject: RE: LyrReq:O Lovely Appearance of From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 22 Jun 02 - 08:44 PM Oddly enough, if you were to type something like lovely appearance of death into the "Digitrad and Forum Search" box which you will find on the main Forum Page, you would get this: OH, LOVELY APPEARANCE OF DEATH o lovely appearance of death won't work, as in this case whoever included it went for oh; equally, punctuation can screw up search results. Punctuation should never be included in a song title if we want people to be able to find it. When using search engines, you should always start with small units and work up. |
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Subject: RE: LyrReq: O Lovely Appearance of Death From: old moose Date: 23 Jun 02 - 05:23 PM Those four lines I already had in my memory ( I think) they sure do ring bells, and maybe I didn't remember them after all, because the rest of the song doesn't come to mind. Thank you diccho and thank you malcom for the information. There were no lyrics under the proper heading. I'll have to look somewhere else for it as well. Thank you both. |
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Subject: RE: LyrReq: O Lovely Appearance of Death From: Haruo Date: 23 Jun 02 - 07:30 PM What do you mean by "no lyrics under the proper heading", old moose? Are you saying you won't accept lyrics that appear under "oh" instead of "o"?! If you click on the link Malcolm Douglas provided, you'll get two full stanzas (i.e. twelve lines beyond the four you've got) not to mention a simple melodic MIDI file. How many stanzas do you want? Granted, given 18th-century Methodist hymnodic tendencies, there were probably a lot more lyrics originally. (Chuck Wesley's famous hymn "O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's Praise" was originally snipped from an 18-stanza text.) Liland |
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Subject: RE: LyrReq: O Lovely Appearance of Death From: Haruo Date: 23 Jun 02 - 07:41 PM Interesting. The DT notes that it was written "ten years before" Whitefield's death. Whitefield died in 1770, yet in February of 1746 Charles Wesley's journal notes the singing of "Ah [sic] Lovely Appearance of Death" over someone's corpse. FWIW. Liland |
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Subject: RE: LyrReq: O Lovely Appearance of Death From: masato sakurai Date: 23 Jun 02 - 07:52 PM "Ah! lovely Appearance of Death" is contained in A Collection of Hymns for Social Worship, by George Whitefield (page 165, hymn 48); unfortunately not on this PDF file. ~Masato
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Subject: RE: LyrReq: O Lovely Appearance of Death From: Haruo Date: 23 Jun 02 - 08:08 PM Thanks, Masato. This collection (published in 1777, seven years after Whitefield's death) is not (despite the page headings reading "WORKS OF GEORGE WHITEFIELD") a collection of hymns written by Whitefield, but merely of hymns collected by Whitefield. He may have written some of them, hard to say since none of them seems to carry a credit line, but not all are (e.g. I notice "Hark the Herald", which is certainly by Charles Wesley, and "Alas and did", which is surely by Watts). So this leaves the issue up in the air (though it suggests why someone might have misattributed the text to Whitefield). Liland |
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Subject: RE: LyrReq: O Lovely Appearance of Death From: masato sakurai Date: 24 Jun 02 - 07:44 AM According to Gilbert Chase's America's Music, 3rd ed. (University of Illinois Press, 1987, 1992, p. 42), "Ah, Lovely Appearance of Death" was contained in Hymns on the Great Festivals and Other Occasions (1746). The "original" tune, given with the first verse in Chase's book, was composed by German musician John Frederick Lampe.
Ah! lovely appearance of Death, ~Masato
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Subject: RE: LyrReq: O Lovely Appearance of Death From: Haruo Date: 24 Jun 02 - 01:15 PM So it was in a 1746 hymnal, but this still doesn't tell us who wrote it or when (though it does rather finish off the possibility that it was written in 1760). Wesley's reference to it certainly makes it sound as if it was a hymn already well known in early February of 1746. And of course the German composer's name is more likely Johann (or even Johannes) Friedrich than John Frederick (Handel is the only one from that era who, to my knowledge, intentionally anglicised his own name, from Georg Friedrich Händel, which is still how most German reference works list him, to George Frederick Handel). Liland |
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