The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #14533   Message #1067872
Posted By: Dave Bryant
08-Dec-03 - 12:54 PM
Thread Name: Shape Note or Sacred Harp
Subject: RE: Shape Note or Sacred Harp
I find it rather strange that several people have mentioned "Northfield" while "New Jerusalem" (Which is another Jeremiah Ingalls setting of the same Isaac Watts text)is conspicuous by it's absence. Perhaps singing it at Larry Gordon's speed has scared people off !

I once read that Ingalls originally composed "Northfield" while he and his friends were waiting rather a long time for their dinner and sang a parody of the Isaac Watts text "How long dear saviour, oh how long, wil our repast be delayed".