Princetown (William Billings)

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• (Posted 2014-06-27)  CPDL #32332:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-06-27).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 36 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition. Transcribed from The Singing-Master's Assistant, 1778. The other nine stanzas from Tate and Brady's paraphrase added below.

• (Posted 2014-05-03)  CPDL #31827:     

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-05-03).   Score information: Letter (landscape), 1 page, 25 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Music as in 1778, note shapes added (4-shape). The other nine stanzas from Tate and Brady's paraphrase added below.

General Information

Title: Princetown
First Line: Lord, hear the voice of my complaint
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Tate and Brady^{create page}

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1770 in The New-England Psalm-Singer, revised in The Singing Master's Assistant,  1778
Description: First published in The New-England Psalm-Singer, 1770, p. 45; revised in 1778. Words from Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, New Version 1698, their paraphrase of Psalm 64.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 64.