Doomsday (Philo Sherman)

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• (Posted 2025-10-29)  CPDL #87260:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2025-10-29).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 61 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Musical Medley, 1808. Another stanza included from Watts' paraphrase. Note heads converted to four-shape notation.

General Information

Title: Doomsday
First Line: No more shall atheists mock his long delay
Composer: Philo Sherman
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TrCtTB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune   Meter: 10 10. 10 10. 10 10

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1808 in The Musical Medley, no. 26
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, paraphrase of Psalm 50, Part 6, with fifteen stanzas. Sherman used the first stanza in his composition.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 50.