The Waterhouse Manuscript
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Title: The Waterhouse Manuscript
Compiler: Susanna Heath
Publication date and place: 1780 –1781 . – Manuscript
Description: A manuscript copied by Suki (Susanna) Heath, who lived in Brookline, Massachusetts until her marriage in 1783 (Crawford and McKay 1974). The works in the manuscript were apparently copied during or soon after singing-schools, perhaps some with William Billings himself. Some pages are dated, the earliest is May 30, 1780, and the latest May 17, 1781. The book is dated July 1, 1782.
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References
- Crawford, Richard, and David P. McKay. 1974. Music in Manuscript: A Massachusetts Tune-Book of 1782. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 84:43-95.
- Kroeger, Karl. 1982. William Billings's Music in Manuscript Copy and Some Notes on Variant Versions of his Pieces. Notes 39(2):316-345.
List of works
| No. | Title | Composer | Text | Copied | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hatfield | William Billings | Though beauty grace the comely face | 30 May 1780 | Law 1786; Shumway 1793; Psalm-Singer's Amusement ca.1804; Ingalls 1805 |
| 2 | Barrington | Anonymous | Stay my beloved with me here | 30 May 1780 | Otherwise unknown; Crawford and McKay say Anonymous composer |
| 3 | Europe | William Billings | No text | Billings 1770 | |
| 4 | Solitude | Lemuel Babcock | My flesh shall slumber in the ground | 9 May 1781 | Stone & Wood 1795; Psalm Singer's Amusement ca. 1804 |
| 5 | Moriston | Susanna Heath | Man has a soul of vast desire | Probably not by William Billings; tune otherwise unknown, not in HTI* | |
| 6 | Weymouth | William Billings | Shall we go on to sin | Billings 1794 | |
| 7 | Holliston | Anonymous | Ye tribes of Adam join | 10 March 1781 | Otherwise not known; not in HTI* |
| 8 | Lexington | Eben Heath | White shepherds watched their flocks by night | Otherwise unknown, not in HTI* | |
| 9 | Spencer | William Billings | No text | "Variant of Bolton (Billings 1778)" – Kroeger 1982 | |
| 10 | Congress | Anonymous | To thine almighty arm we owe | 10 March 1781 | Otherwise unknown, not in HTI* |
| 11 | Morpheus | William Billings | Sleep downy sleep | Billings 1779; Federal Harmony 1790,91,92,93; French 1802 | |
| 12 | Hackers Hall | William Billings | Ye people all with one accord | Otherwise unknown | |
| 13 | Maxwell | Anonymous | Cause us to hear with joy | 12 March 1781 | Otherwise unknown, not in HTI* |
| 14 | Albany | William Billings | Billings 1770 | ||
| 15 | Brattle Street | William Billings | Billings 1770 | ||
| 16 | New Kittery | Anonymous | While shepherds watched their flocks by night | Otherwise unknown, not in HTI* | |
| 17 | Bennington | William Billings | Shepherds, rejoice, lift up your eyes | "Variant of Friendship", Billings 1770 (Kroeger 1982) | |
| 18 | Germantown | William Billings | Why do we mourn departing friends | 16 March 1781 | TB here, SAT in The Shepard Fish Manuscript (Mass. Hist. Soc. Ms. S-290) |
| 19 | Raynham | William Billings | Teach me the measure of my days | Later published as Cobham, Billings 1794 | |
| 20 | New Haven | William Billings | Come now my soul, my heart and tongue | 16 March 1781 | Duxborough of Billings 1770-1778, improved |
| 21 | Bradford | William Billings | O for a shout of sacred joy | ||
| 22 | Plymouth | William Billings | Lift up your heads ye everlasting doors | 17 May 1781 | French 1802 |
| 23 | Dartmouth | William Billings | Let every mortal ear attend | 17 March 1781 | New composition here |
| 24 | Victory | William Billings | To thine almighty arm we owe | Billings 1794 | |
| 25 | Fair Hebe | Fair Hebe I loved with a cautious design | August 1780 | Secular | |
| 26 | General Wolfe | No text | 21 October 1780 | Secular | |
| 27 | British Muse | Oh could the various force of sound | 28 February 1781 | Secular. Select Songster 1786; Belknap 1809 | |
| 28 | Corydon and Phyllis | Ye shepherds so cheerful and gay | 6 April 1781 | Secular |
Works at CPDL
| Title | Composer | Lyricist | No. | Genre | Subgenre | First Line | Meter | Vo. | Voices |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albany | William Billings | 14 | Sacred | Psalm-tunes | 4 | SATB | |||
| Barrington | Anonymous | Elizabeth Rowe | 2 | Sacred | Set pieces | Stay, my beloved with me here | 88. 88 (L.M.) | 4 | SATB |
| Bolton | William Billings | Charles Wesley | 9 | Sacred | Hymn tunes | Rejoice, the Lord is king | 66. 66. 88 | 4 | SATB |
| Brattle Street (1770) | William Billings | Isaac Watts | 15 | Sacred | Psalm-tunes | Just are thy ways, and true thy word | 88. 88. D (L.M.D.) | 4 | SATB |
| Cobham | William Billings | Isaac Watts | 19 | Sacred | Psalm-tunes | Teach me the measure of my days | 86. 86. D (C.M.D.) | 4 | SATB |
| Congress | Anonymous | Isaac Watts | 10 | Sacred | Psalm-tunes | To thine almighty arm we owe | 86. 86. D (C.M.D.) | 4 | SATB |
| Consolation | William Billings | Henry Playford | 21 | Sacred | Psalm-tunes | He's come, let every knee be bent | 86. 86 (C.M.) | 4 | SATB |
| Dartmouth | William Billings | Isaac Watts | 23 | Sacred | Set pieces | Let every mortal ear attend | 86. 86 (C.M.) | 4 | SATB |
| Duxborough | William Billings | Isaac Watts | 20 | Sacred | Psalm-tunes | In vain the wealthy mortals toil | 88. 88 (L.M.) | 4 | SATB |
| Europe | William Billings | Isaac Watts | 3 | Sacred | Let every mortal ear attend | 86. 86 (C.M.) | 4 | SATB | |
| Friendship | William Billings | Isaac Watts | 17 | Sacred | Psalm-tunes | 66. 86 (S.M.) | 4 | SATB | |
| Germantown | William Billings | Isaac Watts | 18 | Sacred | Psalm-tunes | Why do we mourn departing friends | 86. 86 (C.M.) | 4 | SATB |
| Hackers Hall | William Billings | John Hopkins | 12 | Sacred | Psalm-tunes | Ye people all, with one accord | 86. 86 (C.M.) | 2 | TB |
| Hatfield | William Billings | Anonymous | 1 | Sacred | Psalm-tunes | 86. 86 (C.M.) | 3 | STB | |
| Holliston | Anonymous | Isaac Watts | 7 | Sacred | Psalm-tunes | Ye tribes of Adam, join | 66. 66. 44. 44 | 4 | SATB |
| Maxwell | Anonymous | William Billings | 13 | Sacred | Psalm-tunes | Cause us to hear with joy | 66. 86 (S.M.) | 4 | SATB |
| Moriston | Susanna Heath | Isaac Watts | 5 | Sacred | Psalm-tunes | Man has a soul of vast desires | 88. 88 (L.M.) | 4 | SATB |
| Morpheus | William Billings | Thomas Flatman | 11 | Sacred | Awake my soul, awake mine eyes | 88. 88 (L.M.) | 4 | SATB | |
| New Kittery | Anonymous | Nahum Tate | 16 | Sacred | Psalm-tunes | While shepherds watched their flocks by night | 86. 86 (C.M.) | 4 | SATB |
| Plymouth New | William Billings | Tate and Brady | 22 | Sacred | Set pieces | Erect your heads, eternal gates | 86. 86 (C.M.) | 4 | SATB |
| Solitude | Lemuel Babcock | Isaac Watts | 4 | Sacred | Psalm-tunes | 88. 88 (L.M.) | 4 | SATB | |
| Victory | William Billings | Isaac Watts | 24 | Sacred | Psalm-tunes | To thine almighty arm we owe Ye sons of men, a feeble race |
86. 86. D (C.M.D.) | 4 | SATB |
| Weymouth | William Billings | Isaac Watts | 6 | Sacred | Set pieces | Shall we go on to sin | 66. 86 (S.M.) | 4 | TB |