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I am trying to find any information on a Civil War Hymn, "Peace, Troubled Soul" including lyrics. In is # 10 on the CD at the following link http://www.allmusic.com/album/quickstep ... 0002342298" target="_blank" target="_blank. I was wondering if any of you that have played in any reenactment Civil War Bands might be able to point me to any sources. Thanks

Sandlapper wrote:I am trying to find any information on a Civil War Hymn, "Peace, Troubled Soul" including lyrics. In is # 10 on the CD at the following link http://www.allmusic.com/album/quickstep ... 0002342298" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank. I was wondering if any of you that have played in any reenactment Civil War Bands might be able to point me to any sources. Thanks

Not a reenacter, but I AM handy with Google.

I think this info might help:
http://wordwisehymns.com/2010/05/04/tod ... soul-sung/" target="_blank

And here's the writer of the hymn, which predates its use in Civil War times...
http://wordwisehymns.com/2010/01/16/tod ... king-died/" target="_blank

Sandlapper wrote:I am trying to find any information on a Civil War Hymn, "Peace, Troubled Soul" including lyrics. In is # 10 on the CD at the following link http://www.allmusic.com/album/quickstep ... 0002342298" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank. I was wondering if any of you that have played in any reenactment Civil War Bands might be able to point me to any sources. Thanks

the words are in "long metre" (lines of 8 iambic syllables) and this is a common arrangement for hymns. the tune on the recording sounds like the first four lines of a tune called Cardiff, which is one of the alternatives to "and can it be" http://www.regalzonophone.com/Player%20 ... 0Tunes.htm the penultimate track here

Looks like this text was sung to a lot of different tunes. Apparently Hamburg was a frequent choice.

http://www.hymnary.org/text/peace_troub ... t_not_fear

My father has an extensive collection of old hymnals. He found the text in one from 1844 with no music, just the guidance that it should be sung to a long meter tune.

The score in your linked to source indicates a 4/4 pulse of 150. Is that really how it is sung?

I sense a 2/2 pulse of 75, which is the same tempo, but with a less hectic feel.

Klaus

Thank you for your responses. I really don't know a lot about this tune other than having played it in a rehearsal in a small brass group I play in. I freely admit to be Google challenged. I had gone to a number of hymn sites but couldn't find the hymn using their individual search functions, but did find the following link at the Library of Congress Web Site http://www.loc.gov/resource/amss.cw100500.0" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank that referred to singing the Battle of Spottsylvania to the tune of Peace, Troubled Soul's music, but did not have the music or any other reference to the original hymn.

A member of one of the community concert bands I play in has a copy of the music to this that he acquired years ago from the Library of Congress probably from one of the band books from the Civil War but he had no information on composer or original words from that source. His thought was that this may have been used as a funeral hymn during the war. He has been arranging for our small brass group and we may be playing a concert of Music from the Civil War with the anniversary of Sherman's March through SC coming up and doing a presentation on the band music of the era and our local museum doing a program on one of the battles in SC. I am not into reenactment but do like that early brass band music. There are so many just really great pieces of band music from that era that deserve to be played and are just fun to play. When played slowly, I think this is a beautiful tune.