Hackers Hall (William Billings)

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• (Posted 2023-09-29)  CPDL #75881:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-09-29).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 39 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Waterhouse Manuscript, 1780-1781. Round notes, as in 1780-1781. Added another stanza, the sixth one of Hopkins' paraphrase.

• (Posted 2023-09-29)  CPDL #75880:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-09-29).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 40 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Waterhouse Manuscript, 1780-1781. Note shapes added (4-shape). Added another stanza, the sixth one of Hopkins' paraphrase.

General Information

Title: Hackers Hall
First Line: Ye people all, with one accord
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: John Hopkins
Number of voices: 2vv   Voicing: TB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript 1780 – 1781 in The Waterhouse Manuscript, no. 12
Description: Appears in The Waterhouse Manuscript, copied by Susanna Heath 1780-1781, otherwise unknown. Apparently a simple tune for singing school practice. Words by John Hopkins, in the Old Version, 1562, paraphrase of Psalm 47, with eight stanzas. Heath used only the first stanza. Hackers Hall is a building in Providence County, Rhode Island.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 47.