The Complaint of a Sinner (William Parsons I)

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• (Posted 2019-11-25)  CPDL #56048:     

Editor: Jason Smart (submitted 2019-11-25).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 205 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC ND

Edition notes: Three settings of the same tune, scored respectively for TTBB, STBB and SSTB. Edited from 'The Whole Psalmes in Foure Partes' (London: John Day, 1563). Original pitches and note values retained. Parsons's three treatments of the tune beg questions about the editorial sharpening of 'leading notes': see the critical commentary in the score.

General Information

Title: The Complaint of a Sinner
Composer: William Parsons I
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: TTBB, STBB or SSTB
Genre: Sacred, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: The Whole Psalmes in Foure Partes (London: John Day, 1563)
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Original text and translations

English text

Where righteousness doth say,
Lord, for my sinful part
In wrath thou should’st me pay
But needs I must confess
How that continually
Thy laws I do transgress.