Mortality (Philo Sherman)

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• (Posted 2025-10-23)  CPDL #87202:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2025-10-23).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 55 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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

General Information

Title: Mortality
First Line: Time, like an ever-rolling stream
Composer: Philo Sherman
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TrCtTB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1808 in The Musical Medley, no. 30
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, paraphrase of Psalm 90, Part 2, stanza 7.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 90.