Name: Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown (Anthem for SATB Choir) by Trad. Scottish Melody SATB Choir Digital Sheet Music
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Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown (Anthem for SATB Choir)
by Trad. Scottish Melody SATB Choir - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown (Anthem for SATB Choir)

Artist Trad. Scottish Melody

Score Type

PDF

Composer Charles Wesley Trad. Scottish Melody

Arranger Nathaniel Hontz

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 10

Arrangement SATB Choir

Publisher TigerSong LLC

Level 3

Product ID 1339295

Genre Sacred Traditional Religious Folk Christian

Instruments Choir

Product Description

Charles Wesley's poem "Jacob Wrestling" is better known by its first line, "Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown." A sermon in itself, the poem recontextualizes the struggle of the Old Testament story of Jacob wrestling with an angel to current believers' struggles with faith. Isaac Watts, one of the fathers of English hymnody, stated that this poem was worth "all the verses [he] had written." It is set here to a traditional Scottish melody, "Candler" or "Ye Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon," and arranged for SATB choir. It opens with a tenor soli, joined by the other voices. When the speaker makes demands of his divine opponent, the anthem modally shifts to the parallel minor. Eventually, the choir wrestles, as the four wrestling verses of the poem are sung at the same time in a 4-part canon. Finally, the speaker's epiphany is accompanied by a key change and a joyous conclusion in 4-part harmony.

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