Hatfield - Billings, William

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"This tune was probably composed by William Billings before 1780, and copied into The Waterhouse Manuscript at (or soon after) a singing-school session; the manuscript page is dated May 30, 1780. Obviously the copyist, Susanna Heath, didn't complete copying the Treble part. The words are anonymous and recondite, apparently a later stanza from a longer poem, "Here is a song, which doth belong", but the first complete version of this poem was not published until 1812. The tune appeared in Shumway's American Harmony (1793) with different words, "Naked, as from the earth we came" by Isaac Watts, then in Ingalls' Christian Harmony as The True Penitent, with different words, "Hark! hear the sound on earth is found". Billings had apparently considerably revised the tune in the 1780s or 1790s, but the revision didn't appear until the posthumous Psalm-Singer's Amusement in 1804 or thereabouts, when it was paired with Isaac Watts' words, "Let others boast how strong they be"."

⌛ Epoche → Klassik ◈ Genre → Psalm

♯ Tonart G minor

⁄ Taktart 4/4

♬ Besetzung → STB|TrTB

◆ Difficulty

Unterstufe

↕ Tonumfang G – f''

♩ Tempo 100

◷ Dauer ~38 sec

¶ Sprache → Englisch

Takte 16

Textur mixed texture

Stimmen 4

Instrumente A cappella

Seiten 1

CPDL Nr. 85298

Bearbeiter Barry Johnston

Veröffentlicht 2025-06-02

Lizenz CPDL-Lizenz

♫Tonumfänge

Tr.

f' – f''

d' – a'

f – f'

G – g

Schlagwörter

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