Hymn tune 'Saltash'

Subject: RE: Hymn tune 'Saltash'
From: Cats
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 05:45 AM

Hawker,
It's the O'Connor who needs the Saltash stuff. I thought I might get what he needed on here and yippee!!! it worked. Give Jon a ring and come over sometime.

Subject: RE: Hymn tune 'Saltash'
From: Hawker
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 04:38 AM

Dat's Cats! Dyslexia LuresKO ;0)

Subject: RE: Hymn tune 'Saltash'
From: Hawker
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 04:38 AM

Dats, I have the Bristol Tune Book (Hymnal) both in tonic sol fa and in notes, it is in both. Need Jon to sign some cheques, so you can have a look then! (If I can find them!)
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: Hymn tune 'Saltash'
From: masato sakurai
Date: 29 Oct 06 - 06:31 PM

This is an early American hymn tune. Acccording to D. DeWitt Wasson's Hymntune Index and Related Hymn Materials (1998), SALTASH (aka PLEADING SAVIOR, PLYMOUTH, SING OF MARY etc.) appeared in Joshua Leavitt's The Christian Lyre (1831), Henry Ward Beecher's Plymouth Collection (1855), and The English Hymnal (1906). Marion J. Hatchett (in A Companion to The New Harp of Columbia, 2003, p. 33) also says that "PLEADING SAVIOR (SALTASH) goes back to Joshua Leavitt's Christian Lyre."

The Christian Lyre is "A Monthly Musical Periodical founded and edited by Joshua Leavitt (an American Presbyterian) in 1830. It is not known how long it continued in existence; a copy of an early volume in the Harvard Divinity School Library is marked 'Vol.1 3rd edn 1831.'" (From this page).

Subject: RE: Hymn tune 'Saltash'
From: nutty
Date: 29 Oct 06 - 04:40 PM

This could be what you are looking for. Google found it.

Pleading Savior

Subject: RE: Hymn tune 'Saltash'
From: greg stephens
Date: 29 Oct 06 - 04:39 PM

Sorry, can't offer anything pre 1850. Earliest reference I can find is my English copy of the Methodist Hymnal. That gives the source as "Plymouth Collection(USA)1855".

Subject: Hymn tune 'Saltash'
From: Cats
Date: 29 Oct 06 - 01:36 PM

Does anyone have any information about a hymn tune called 'Saltash'? We are looking for provenance of pre 1850 and think it may appear in hymn books and psalmodies both in the UK and USA.