Great-Plain (William Billings)

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  • CPDL #15662:  Network.png
Editor: Michael Lauer (submitted 2007-12-13).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 86 kB   Copyright: Personal
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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-08-20).   Score information: Letter (landscape), 2 pages, 54 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape).

General Information

Title: Ye slumb'ring saints, a heav'nly host
Composer: William Billings
Tune: Great-Plain
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SacredHymn

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: The Continental Harmony, 1794

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Original text and translations

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Ye slumb’ring saints, a heav’nly host
stands waiting at your gaping tombs;
let ev’ry sacred sleeping dust
leap into life for Jesus comes.