Among Jeremiah Ingalls' earliest known works, this A-minor double fugue tune is as complex as anything written by the early New England writers. At the fuge, the voices enter first lowest to highest around the square singing,"from East to West" and then from Treble back down and around to the Bass at "The trumpet sounds..."

To wrap it all up, Ingalls puts a heart-stopping rest on a downbeat right before the final rush to the close, "Lift up your hearts..."

Here are the words, the leader was Ben Bath.

The God of glory sends his summons forth,
Calls the south nations, and awakes the north;
From east to west the sov'reign orders spread,
Thro' distant worlds, and regions of the dead:
The trumpet sounds; hell trembles; heaven rejoices;
Lift up your heads, ye saints, with cheerful voices.

-- Isaac Watts

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