New Kittery (Anonymous)

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• (Posted 2023-10-01)  CPDL #75903:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-10-01).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 52 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Waterhouse Manuscript, 1780-1781. Round notes, as in 1780-1781. Another stanza included, the sixth of Tate's hymn.

• (Posted 2023-10-01)  CPDL #75902:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-10-01).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 65 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Waterhouse Manuscript, 1780-1781. Added note shapes (4-shape). Another stanza included, the sixth of Tate's hymn.

General Information

Title: New Kittery
First Line: While shepherds watched their flocks by night
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist: Nahum Tate
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TrCTB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript 1780 – 1781 in The Waterhouse Manuscript, no. 16
Description: Appeared in The Waterhouse Manuscript, 1780-1781, copied by Susanna Heath on March 13, 1781. Otherwise the tune is unknown. Kittery (William Billings) (for which this tune is named) was not published until 1783, and not published by Billings until 1786, so Kittery must have been composed and in common use before 1780. Words by Nahum Tate, 1700, in A Supplement to the New Version of Psalms, with six stanzas. Heath included only the first few words of the first stanza – these words were well-known in those times, as well as later.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at While shepherds watched their flocks by night.