The New-England Psalm-Singer (William Billings)

General Information

Short Title: The New-England Psalm-Singer

Full Title: The New-England Psalm-Singer; or, American Chorister. Containing A Number of Psalm-Tunes, Anthems and Canons, In Four and Five Parts, Never before Published.

Editor - Composer: William Billings, Composer

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Description: The first book of original music by a single composer printed in America.

Contents

No.	Page	Title	Author	First Line	Key	Meter	Time	Vo.	Comment
1	0	Canon of 6	Mather Byles	Wake every breath and every string	C	L.M.	3:2	6	Engraved by Paul Revere
2	1	America	Mather Byles	To thee the tuneful anthem soars	D	88.88.88.	3:2	4
3	2a	Brookline		no text	A	C.M.	4:4	4	Ps. 19
4	2b	Nantucket		no text	D	S.M.	3:2	4	Hymn 6
5	3a	Hampshire		no text	a	L.M.	4:4	4
6	3b	New Town		no text	A	L.M.	2:2	4
7	4a	Malden		no text	G	L.M.	3:2	4	Ps. 106
8	4b	Union		no text	C	S.M.	3:2	4	Ps. 25
9	5a	Pembroke		no text	D	L.M.	4:4	4	Hymn 17
10	5b	Concord		no text	a	C.M.	3:2	4	Ps. _
11	6a	New Boston		no text	D	66.688.	4:4	4	Ps. 148
12	6b	Hingham		no text	b	S.M.	4:4	4
13	7a	Brookfield		no text	d	L.M.	3:2	4	Hymn 75
14	7b	Pomfret		no text	G	C.M.	3:2	4	Ps. 92
15	8a	St. Elisha's		no text	D	L.M.	3:2	4	Hymn 14
16	8b	Duxborough		no text	e	L.M.	4:4	4
17	9a	Scituate		no text	b	L.M.	3:2	4
18	9b	Liberty	William Billings	God bless our glorious king	G	S.M.	3:2	4
19	10	Pembroke New		no text	D	88.88.88.	3:2	4
20	11	Plymton		no text	b	88.88.88.	4:4	4
21	12a	New South		no text	C	S.M.	3:2	4
22	12b	Sudbury		no text	F	C.M.	2:2	4
23	13a	Water Town		no text	D	L.M.	3:4	4
24	13b	Fairfield		no text	a	S.M.	3:2	4
25	14a	Africa		no text	E	C.M.	3:2	4
26	14b	Hamton		no text	C	L.M.	3:2	4
27	15	Christmas Hymn or Charlston	Tate & Brady	While shepherds watched their flocks by night	F	C.M.	4:4	4
28	16a	Cumberland		no text	C	C.M.	3:2	4
29	16b	North River		no text	a	C.M.	2:2	4
30	17a	Albany		no text	a	C.M.	3:2	4
31	17b	Suffolk		no text	g	L.M.	3:2	4
32	18a	Wheelers Point		no text	d	L.M.	3:2	4
33	18b	Unity		no text	D	L.M.	4:4	4
34	19	Brattle Street		no text	G	L.M.	3:2	4
35	20a	Old Brick		no text	a	L.M.	4:4	4
36	20b	Roxbury		no text	a	L.M.	3:2	4
37	21a	Old South		no text	b	C.M.	4:4	4
38	21b	Greenland		no text	a	S.M.	3:2	4
39	22	Old North or Morning Hymn		Awake, my my soul, awake	F	S.M.D.	3:2	4
40	23	Boston		Shepherds rejoice, lift up your eyes	B	C.M.	4:4	4
41	24	Anthem		The Lord is King, and is clothed with majesty	C	Anthem	3:4	4	Psalm 3
42	31	Anthem		As the hart panteth after the water brooks	F, G	Anthem	2:2	4	Psalm 42
43	40a	Massachusetts	Perez Morton	Great is the Lord, he thunders his voice	C	10 10.10 10	3:2	4
44	40b	Bridgwater or Evening Hymn		Majestic God, when I descry	F	L.M.	3:2	4
45	41a	Pleasant Street		no text	a	L.M.	3:2	4
46	41b	Nantasket		no text	C	L.M.	3:2	4
47	42a	Stoughton		no text	A	C.M.	3:4	4
48	42b	Orange Street		no text	a	C.M.	3:2	4
49	43	Braintree		no text	D	88.88.88.	4:4	4
50	44a	Milton		Then will I laud my God and King	G	C.M.D.	3:2	4	Ps. 145
51	45a	Dedham		no text	G	L.M.	3:2	4
52	45b	Prince Town		no text	d	C.M.	3:2	4
53	46a	Corsica	Perez Morton	The Lord almighty is a God	F	C.M.	3:2	4
54	46b	Canon of 4 in 1		no text	B♭	L.M.	3:4	4
55	47	Cambridge		no text	C	88.88.88.	2:2	4
56	48a	Chelsea		no text	D	L.M.	3:2	4
57	48b	Amherst		To God the mighty Lord	G	66.66.88.	3:2	4
58	49	Taunton		As pants the hart for cooling streams	a	C.M.	3:2	4	Ps. 42
59	50	Queen Street	Perez Morton	O clap your hands and shout for joy	F	C.M.	2:2	4
60	51	Anthem		The Lord descended from above	C	Anthem	3:4	4
61	56	Canon of 4 in 1		When Jesus wept, the falling tear	A	L.M.	3:2	4
62	57	Pitt		no text	C	S.M.D.	2:2	3
63	58a	Freedom		no text	a	S.M.	3:2	4
64	58b	Tower Hill		no text	a	C.M.	3:2	4
65	59a	New Hingham		Death! O the awful sound	b	S.M.	2:2	4
66	59b	Attleborough		no text	F	S.M.	3:2	4
67	60a	Pumpily		no text	C	66.66.88.	3:2	4	Ps. 148
68	60b	Asia		no text	a	S.M.	4:4	4
69	61a	Friendship		no text	A	S.M.	4:4	4
70	61b	Wellfleet		no text	a	S. M.	3:2	4
71	62a	Eastham		no text	a	C.M.	3:2	4
72	62b	Middlesex		no text	G	C.M.	3:2	4
73	63a	Chesterfield		no text	d	C.M.	3:2	4
74	63b	East-Town		no text	G	S.M.	3:2	4
75	64a	Uxbridge		no text	G	C.M.	3:4	4
76	64b	Jamaica		no text	a	L.M.	3:2	4
77	65a	Essex		no text	C	S.M.	3:2	4
78	65b	Andover		no text	C	C.M.	3:2	4
79	66a	Lexington		no text	a	L.M.	3:4	4
80	66b	Summer Street		no text	a	C.M.	3:2	4
81	67a	Pownall		no text	a	L.M.	3:2	4
82	67b	Barre		no text	G	C.M.	3:4	4
83	68a	Nutfield		no text	e	S.M.	4:4	4
84	68b	Harvard		no text	d	C.M.	4:4	4
85	69a	Hebron		no text	d	S.M.	3:2	4
86	69b	New North		no text	D	C.M.	4:4	4
87	70a	Dighton		no text	a	C.M.	3:2	4
88	70b	Lynn		no text	G	C.M.	3:2	4
89	71a	Westfield		no text	f	L.M.	3:2	4
90	71b	Marblehead		no text	G	C.M.	3:2	4
91	72a	Ipswich		no text	a	C.M.	4:4	4
92	72b	Swanzey		no text	a	C.M.	3:2	4
93	73a	Dickinson		no text	A	S.M.	4:4	4
94	73b	Purchase Street		no text	F	S.M.	3:2	4
95	74a	Middletown		no text	g	S.M.	2:4	4
96	74b	Shirley		no text	e	L.M.	4:4	4
97	75a	Hanover		Blessed is the man, supremely blessed	D	L.M.	4:4	4
98	75b	Hanover New		no text	A	C.M.	3:2	4
99	76a	Georgia		no text	G	L.M.	3:2	4
100	76b	Marshfield		Ah! Lovely appearance of death	e	L.M.	3:2	4
101	77a	Lincoln		no text	C	S.M.	3:2	4
102	77b	Orleans		no text	g	C.M.	3:2	4
103	78a	Providence		no text	e	L.M.	3:4	4
104	78b	Dorchester		no text	f	C.M.	3:2	4
105	79	No. 45		no text	F	66.66.88.	3:2	4
106	80a	The Eighteenth Psalm		no text	G	C.M.	3:2	4
107	80b	Wilks	Perez Morton	Almighty God, eternal King	D	L.M.	3:2	4
108	81	Anthem for Fast Day		Hear my prayer, O Lord	a	Anthem	3:2	4	Ps. 143
109	85	Canon of 4 in 1		Thus saith the high, the lofty One	G	L.M.	3:2	4
110	86a	Medford		no text	b	L.M.	3:2	4
111	86b	Hollis		no text	B	L.M.	3:2	4
112	87a	Newport		no text	d	L.M.	3:4	4
113	87b	Williamsburgh		Almighty God, whose boundless sway	G	C.M.	3:2	4
114	88	Holden		no text	C	88.88.88.	3:2	4
115	89	Ashford		The Lord himself, the mighty Lord	C	C.M.	3:2	4	Ps. 23
116	90	Europe		Let Whig and Tory all subside	F	C.M.	2:2	4
117	91	Chester		Let tyrants shake their iron rod	F	L.M.	2:2	4
118	92	Smithfield		Lord, who's the happy man that may	a	C.M.	3:2	4	Ps. 15
119	93a	Lancaster		no text	a	L.M.	4:4	4
120	93b	Plainfield		no text	G	C.M.	3:2	4
121	94a	Hollis Street	Mather Byles	Let angels above and saints here below	F	10 10.11 11	3:2	4
122	94b	Medfield	Samuel Byles	When I my various blessings see	C	L.M.	3:2	4
123	95a	Waltham	Perez Morton	To thee I made my cry	C	S.M.	3:2	4
124	95b	Lebanon or Funeral Hymn		Death, with his warrant in his hand	g	C.M.	2:2	4
125	96	Haverill		Through all the changing scenes of life	G	C.M.	3:2	4	Ps. 34
126	97	Anthem		Blessed is he who considereth the poor	C, c	Anthem	3:2		Suitable for charity meeting
127	108	Sapphick Ode	Isaac Watts	When the fierce north wind with his airy forces	C	11 11.11 11.	3:2	4