Voicing: TTBB with two flugelhorns
Composed by Ananias Davisson
Arranged by Richard Bjella
"Idumea" (1991 Sacred Harp, page 47b) is the Latin form of the Biblical name Edom, which means "red." It is a hilly land south of the Dead Sea that is now in Jordan and includes the ancient city of Petra. When Moses wanted to enter the land of Canaan via Edom, the rulers of Edom wouldn't let him. The tune was used effectively at the beginning of Cold Mountain, the 2003 American Civil War drama, accompanying pictures of the Battle of the Crater, one of the most horrible battles fought anywhere in the nineteenth century.