The Collection

Song TitleThe Collection (Search)
Composer(s):Charles Ives
Author(s):James Ives, Charles Edmeston
Keyword(s) & Features: Anticipation; Asking; Bearing; Burdens; Christian Worship Service; Collections; Communities; Composer is Poet; Desire; Faith; Following; Fulfillment; Gentiles; God; Hastening; Help; Jewish People; Joining; Joy; Laws; Lord; Love; Nations; Praising; Promises; Rejoicing; Religion; Serving; Unity; Voices; Wearing; Yokes
First LineNow help us, Lord, Thy yoke to wear (Search)
Average Duration2:45 (Search)
Year of composition 1920 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=8728
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsModernism (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/5JmR6g22SO6dThXc53bb36
Catalog DesignationS. 230 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano
Range: E4 - F#5 (Search)
Original KeyA Major (Search)
NotesCrawford and Wierzbicki, Music in the United States of America, vol. 12, Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, American Musicological Society, 2004, p. 277 lists Edmeston as primary poet (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceVoice and organ (Search)
More Than One Voice?Optional "Village Choir" (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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