Delaware (William Billings)
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- (Posted 2015-06-23) CPDL #35880:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-06-23). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 48 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Oval note edition. The other three stanzas from Watts' paraphrase added below.
- (Posted 2015-06-23) CPDL #35879:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-06-23). Score information: 7 x 10 in (landscape), 1 page, 53 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). The other three stanzas of Watts' paraphrase added below.
General Information
Title: Delaware
First Line: Remember, Lord, our mortal state
Composer: William Billings
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: 1779 in Music in Miniature, no. 63
Description: First published ion Music in Miniature, 1779, p. 28, without words. Music revised and words added some time after 1781, published posthumously about 1804 (see Nathan 1977). Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, his paraphrase of Psalm 89.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 89.