All Saints (Alexander Gillet)

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• (Posted 2019-12-01)  CPDL #56142:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2019-12-01).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 73 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Another stanza included from Watts' paraphrase.

General Information

Title: All Saints
First Line: This life's a dream, an empty show
Composer: Alexander Gillet
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1794 in Andrew Law's The Christian Harmony
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, paraphrase of Psalm 17, Part 2, with six stanzas. Gillet used the fourth stanza of Watts' paraphrase in his composition.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 17.