The enthusiasm always and everywhere aroused by the singing of “Coronation,” dates from the 51 / 29 time it first went abroad in America in its new wedlock of music and words. “This tune,” says an accompanying note over the score in the old Carmina Sacra, “was a great favorite with the late Dr. Dwight of Yale College (1798). It was often sung by the college choir, while he, catching, as it were, the music of the heavenly world, would join them, and lead with the most ardent devotion.”
“AWAKE AND SING THE SONG.”
This hymn of six stanzas is abridged from a longer one indited by the Rev. William Hammond, and published in Lady Huntingdon's Hymn-book. It was much in use in early Methodist revivals. It appears now as it was slightly altered by Rev. Martin Madan—
Awake and sing the song
Of Moses and the Lamb;
Join every heart and every tongue
To praise the Savior's name.
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The sixth verse is a variation of one of Watts' hymns, and was added in the Brethren's Hymn-book, 1801—
There shall each heart and tongue