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• (Posted 2023-09-29)  CPDL #75870:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-09-29).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 69 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Waterhouse Manuscript, 1780-1781. Many editorial changes made to the first (3:2) part. Round notes, as in 1781. Another pair of stanzas included, stanzas four and five of Watts' paraphrase.

• (Posted 2023-09-29)  CPDL #75869:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-09-29).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 72 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Waterhouse Manuscript, 1780-1781. Many editorial changes made to the first (3:2) part. Note shapes added (4-shape). Another pair of stanzas included, stanzas four and five of Watts' paraphrase.

General Information

Title: Congress
First Line: To thine almighty arm we owe
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TrATB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune   Meter: 86. 86. D (C.M.D.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript 1780 – 1781 in The Waterhouse Manuscript, no. 10
Description: Appears (only?) in The Waterhouse Manuscript, 1780-1781, copied by Susanna Heath on March 10, 1781. Tune not in The Hymn Tune Index. Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, paraphrase of Psalm 18, second Part 2, with six stanzas. Heath combined the first two common meter stanzas for this tune's 86. 86. D. (C. M. D.) meter.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 18.