To Your Unequaled Strength

Performance Notes:

• The following article is from the Psalter Hymnal Handbook.

Tune Information:

Presumably named after the Michigan city and river, DETROIT was published anonymously in Ananias Davisson's shape-note tune book Supplement to Kentucky Harmony (1820). The tune is credited to "Bradshaw" in Virginia Harmony (1831) and Southern Harmony (1835). Thought to be an Appalachian adaptation of an old English folk song, DETROIT has a fine melodic curve over its two long lines, ascending and then descending. Feel two beats per measure.

Other Resources:

• Visit hymnary.org for more information on this song and additional resources.
• The following is an alternative accompaniment for this tune, DETROIT.

Alternative Harmonization for Organ and Descant Resources:

• Busarow, Donald. Thirty More Accompaniments for Hymns in Canon. Augsburg 11-10163 [1992]