Cranbury (Nehemiah Shumway)

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  • (Posted 2015-06-07)  CPDL #35669:       
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-06-07).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 83 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Oval note edition. The other seven stanzas from Watts' paraphrase added below.
  • (Posted 2015-06-07)  CPDL #35668:     
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-06-07).   Score information: 7 x 10 in (landscape), 1 page, 83 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Four selected stanzas from Watts' paraphrase added below.

General Information

Title: Cranbury
First Line: Great God, the heavens' well-ordered-frame
Composer: Nehemiah Shumway
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SacredHymn   Meter: 88. 88. 88

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1793 in Shumway's The American Harmony, p. 35
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, his paraphrase of Psalm 19, in eight stanzas.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 19.