Princetown (William Billings)

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• CPDL #32332:  MusicXML

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-06-27).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 36 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition. Transcribed from The Singing-Master's Assistant, 1778. The other nine stanzas from Tate and Brady's paraphrase added below.

• CPDL #31827: 

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-05-03).   Score information: Letter (landscape), 1 page, 25 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Music as in 1778, note shapes added (4-shape). Stanzas 2-5 added from Brady and Tate's 1698 adaptation of Psalm 64. The other nine stanzas from Tate and Brady's paraphrase added below.

General Information

Title: Princetown
First Line: Lord, hear the voice of my complaint
Composer: William Billings
Lyricists: Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1770

Description: First published in The New-England Psalm-Singer, 1770, p. 45; revised in 1778. Words from Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, New Version 1698, their paraphrase of Psalm 64.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 64.