Massachusetts (Amos Pilsbury)

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• (Posted 2018-01-01)  CPDL #48263:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-01-01).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 64 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Oval note edition. A few note edits, to avoid dissonances, otherwise as written in 1799.

• (Posted 2018-01-01)  CPDL #48262:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-01-01).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 2 pages, 76 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Re-formatted 2023-09-08.

General Information

Title: Massachusetts
First Line: Let differing nations join
Composer: Amos Pilsbury
Lyricist: Tate and Brady^{create page}

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Set piece   Meter: 66. 86 (S.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1799 in Pilsbury's The United States Sacred Harmony, pp. 80-81
Description: A set piece. Words by Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, 1698, New Version paraphrase of Psalm 67, with seven stanzas. Pilsbury used stanzas three and four in his composition.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 67.