Cobham (William Billings)

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  • (Posted 2023-10-03)  CPDL #75980:         
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-10-03).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 39 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: For TB. Transcribed from The Waterhouse Manuscript, 1780-1781. The first stanza of Watts' hymn included.
  • (Posted 2023-10-03)  CPDL #75979:       
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-10-03).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 52 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Transcribed from The Continental Harmony, 1794. Three double stanzas included.
  • (Posted 2014-08-19)  CPDL #32725:         
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-08-19).   Score information: Letter (landscape), 1 page, 59 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Transcribed from The Continental Harmony, 1794. Note shapes added (4-shape). Three double stanzas included. Re-formatted 2023-10-03.
  • (Posted 2009-05-12)  CPDL #19460:  Network.png
Editor: Michael Lauer (submitted 2009-05-12).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 81 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes:

General Information

Title: Cobham
First Line: Teach me the measure of my days
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SacredPsalm-tune   Meter: 86. 86. D (C.M.D.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript 1780 – 1781 in The Waterhouse Manuscript, no. 19
First published: 1794 in The Continental Harmony
Description: This work first appears in The Waterhouse Manuscript, 1780-1781, as "Raynham" for Tenor and Bass and attributed to Billings, so it must have been composed before 1780. Published later, on pages 185-186 of The Continental Harmony (1794). Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, paraphrase of Psalm 39, Part 2, with six stanzas; Billings used two of Watts' C. M. stanzas for each one in his composition.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 39.