Invitation (Walker, William)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	7 verses
First Publication	1835 in Southern Harmony, page 2
Genre Categories	Sacred hymns; Hymns; Religious works; For 3 voices; For unaccompanied voices; Scores featuring the voice; For mixed chorus; Scores featuring mixed chorus; For unaccompanied chorus; English language; For 4 voices (arr); For unaccompanied voices (arr); Scores featuring the voice (arr); For voice, keyboard (arr); For voices with keyboard (arr); Scores featuring keyboard soloists (arr)

1 Performances
- 1.1 Recordings
- 1.2 Synthesized/MIDI
2 Sheet Music
- 2.1 Scores
- 2.2 Arrangements and Transcriptions
  - 2.2.1 For Voice(s) and Keyboard (Knapicius)
3 General Information
4 Navigation etc.

Performances

Recordings

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Synthesized/MIDI

Come, Ye Sinners, Poor And Wretched
*#691489 - 6.95MB - 5:04 - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 22×⇩ - MP3 - Joseph Knapicius

MP3 file (audio)
Joseph Knapicius (2021/4/13)

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Sheet Music

Scores

Complete Score
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Publisher. Info.	The Southern Harmony Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait & Co., 1845. Spartanburg: William Walker, 1845.
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Complete Score
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Editor	William Walker (1809-1875), added alto part
Publisher. Info.	The Christian Harmony Philadelphia: E. W. Miller and William Walker, 1867.
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

For Voice(s) and Keyboard (Knapicius)

Complete Score
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Joseph Knapicius (2021/4/13)

Arranger	Joseph Knapicius (b. 1957)
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Misc. Notes	Version in D minor
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General Information

Work Title	Come, Ye Sinners, Poor And Wretched
Alternative. Title	Invitation (Come, Ye Sinners, Poor And Wretched)
Composer	Walker, William
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IWW 1
Key	B-flat major
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	7 verses
Text Incipit	Come, ye sinners, poor and wretched
First Publication.	1835 in Southern Harmony, page 2
Librettist	Joseph Hart II (1712-1768)
Language	English
Average DurationAvg. Duration	4 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Modern
Instrumentation	3 voice chorus

Navigation etc.

As printed in either Southern Harmony (1835 through 1854) and Christian Harmony (1867) the structure of this tune and its text fit is ambiguous. Evidently the tune ought to have the traditional Da Capo structure AABA, which thus requires some repetition of text (there being only 6 lines). In Southern Harmony the initial A part has no extra text other than the first two lines, so it could be presumed that those lines are intended (unusually) to be sung twice (or, also unusually, the initial repeat mark is to be ignored, and the tune sung as ABA). However, in Christian Harmony, the tune is printed in two halves (as a da capo tune, although curiously it is missing the crucial indication D.C.) with the first four lines of text set below the first half (A), it then being unclear which words to use on the implied D.C. repeat. The arrangement currently on this page solves this by using the word Hallelujah for the final A part.

Early American Tune