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==Music files==
==Music files==
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*{{PostedDate|2007-11-04}} {{CPDLno|15317}} [[Media:Sappho.pdf|{{pdf}}]] [[Media:Sappho.mid|{{mid}}]]
*{{CPDLno|15317}} [{{filepath:Sappho.pdf}} {{pdf}}] [{{filepath:Sappho.mid}} {{mid}}]  
{{Editor|Tim Henderson|2007-11-04}}{{ScoreInfo|A4|1|253}}{{Copy|CPDL}}
{{Editor|Tim Henderson|2007-11-04}}{{ScoreInfo|A4|1|253}}{{Copy|CPDL}}
:'''Edition notes:''' This edition taken from Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, 2nd ed, 1820
:'''Edition notes:''' This edition taken from Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, 2nd ed, 1820


==General Information==
==General Information==
'''Title:''' ''When the fierce north wind with his airy forces''<br>
{{Title|''Sappho''}}
{{FirstLine| When the fierce north wind with his airy forces}}
{{Composer|William Billings}}
{{Composer|William Billings}}
'''Tune:''' ''Sappho''<br>
{{Lyricist|Isaac Watts}}
{{Lyricist|Isaac Watts}}


{{Voicing|4|SATB}}<br>
{{Voicing|4|SATB}}<br>
{{Genre|Sacred|Hymns}}
{{Genre|Sacred}}
{{Language|English}}
{{Language|English}}
{{Instruments|A cappella}}
{{Instruments|A cappella}}
'''Published:''' 1770
{{Pub|1|1770|in ''[[The New-England Psalm-Singer (William Billings)|The New-England Psalm-Singer]]'', revised in ''[[The Singing Master's Assistant (William Billings)|The Singing Master's Assistant]]'', {{PubRev|1778}}.}}


'''Description:''' This setting of Isaac Watts' Sapphick Ode 'When the fierce north wind with his airy forces' was first published in William Billings' ''The New-England Psalm-Singer'', Boston: (1770). ''Hymn Tune Index'' tune number 3453.
'''Description:''' This setting of Isaac Watts' Sapphick Ode 'When the fierce north wind with his airy forces' was first published in William Billings' ''The New-England Psalm-Singer'', Boston: (1770). ''Hymn Tune Index'' tune number 3453.


'''External websites:'''  
'''External websites:'''


==Original text and translations==
==Original text and translations==


{{Text|English|
{{LinkText|When the fierce north wind with his airy forces}}
When the fierce North-wind with his airy forces
Rears up the Baltic to a foaming fury;
And the red lightning with a storm of hail comes
Rushing amain down;
 
How the poor sailors stand amazed and tremble,
While the hoarse thunder, like a bloody trumpet,
Roars a loud onset to the gaping waters
Quick to devour them.
 
Such shall the noise be, and the wild disorder
(If things eternal may be like these earthly),
Such the dire terror when the great Archangel
Shakes the creation;
 
Stop here, my fancy: (all away, ye horrid
Doleful ideas!) come, arise to Jesus,
How He sits God-like! and the saints around Him
Throned, yet adoring!
 
O may I sit there when He comes triumphant,
Dooming the nations! then ascend to glory,
While our Hosannas all along the passage
Shout the Redeemer!
}}


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  • (Posted 2007-11-04)  CPDL #15317:     
Editor: Tim Henderson (submitted 2007-11-04).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 253 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: This edition taken from Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, 2nd ed, 1820

General Information

Title: Sappho
First Line: When the fierce north wind with his airy forces
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1770 in The New-England Psalm-Singer, revised in The Singing Master's Assistant,  1778

Description: This setting of Isaac Watts' Sapphick Ode 'When the fierce north wind with his airy forces' was first published in William Billings' The New-England Psalm-Singer, Boston: (1770). Hymn Tune Index tune number 3453.

External websites:

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at When the fierce north wind with his airy forces.