Save me O God (John Blow)

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CPDL #15073: Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Sibelius 5
Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2007-09-21).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 50 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: From "Cathedral Music" by Boyce. Boyce provides a continuo accompaniment which is probably not by Blow. The Decani and Cantoris indications may also be by Boyce.

General Information

Title: Save me O God
Composer: John Blow

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Sacred, Anthems

Language: English
Instruments: None, but probably intended to be accompanied ad lib
Published: Not known

Description: Bar 9 "weary of crying", bar 21 "suffered reproof" and bars 27 to 30 "I wept" were examples of "Dr Blow's crudities" included by Charles Burney and criticised in his "History of Music", page 355 in the Dover edition.

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Original text and translations

Psalm 69, verses 1, 3, 7, 10, 13 and 14.

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 69.