Erect your heads, eternal gates (Joseph Stephenson)
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- Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2013-07-31). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 53 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: The alto part is notated in the alto clef in the source: the original time signature is retorted time. Fragments of verses 7-8 of the text are given in the source: these verses and verses 9-10 have been editorially underlaid in full. The F♮ in the tenor part in the second half of bar 15 is marked in the source with a ♭ sign.
General Information
Title: Erect your heads, eternal gates
Composer: Joseph Stephenson
Lyricists: Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady (from A new version of the psalms of David)
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 86. 86. D (C.M.D.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1757
Description: This setting of verses from Psalm 24 in the metrical New Version was published on pp40-41 of Joseph Stephenson's Church Harmony Sacred to Devotion. The first edition of this collection was published in 1757. Hymn Tune Index tune number 2630.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 24.