My soul lies cleaving to the dust (Richard Taylor)

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• (Posted 2025-12-01)  CPDL #87662:           

Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2025-12-01).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 61 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: The parts are given here in the same order as in the source, where the allocation of treble and tenor parts is not specified, although the alto part is given in the alto clef. Only the first verse of text given here is underlaid in the source, where the subsequent verses are printed after the music of this setting. The bass part is figured in the source: this figuring has been omitted to accommodate the editorial underlaying of additional verses. The tenor notes given here as quavers E and D at the end of bar 13 are printed in the source as a crotchet E in this bar, with a small grace note crotchet preceding the dotted minim C in the following bar. The alto notes in the last 3 bars, given here as E-F-F-E-E-E, are printed in the source as F-G-G-F-F-F (a semitone or tone higher).

General Information

Title: My soul lies cleaving to the dust
Composer: Richard Taylor
Tune: Petition
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1789 in Richard Taylor's first book, The Beauties of Sacred Verse, London, on p. 38
Description: Hymn Tune Index tune number 5230.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 119.