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Benedicite

Genre: Secular Vocal
D No: 701
Text - Incipit: God's love and peace be with thee
Text - Author or Scripture: John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
Performing Forces: voice, piano
Date Published: MS
Date of Composition: 1941
Dedication: Joan Shaw
Notes: His first fair-copied composition, age 20. It is found at the back of a bound volume in which he kept notes and memorabilia from his studies at Peabody Conservatory. That volume includes carefully transcribed (typed) principles of Virgil Fox’s technical teaching as well as his pedalings for all pedal scales.

Categorized as: 700 Secular Vocal
Tagged as: piano, solo vocal

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