The spacious firmament on high (Joseph Haydn)

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  • (Posted 2022-07-12)  CPDL #69999:       
Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2022-07-12).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 75 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: The hymn with harmony and underlaid words in the version published in The Hymnal 1982, taken from the adaptation in Dulcimer, or the New York Collection of Sacred Music, 1850.
  • (Posted 2022-07-12)  CPDL #69998:       
Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2022-07-12).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 249 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in The Hymnal 1982, melody with words.
  • (Posted 2010-05-26)  CPDL #21521:          (Sibelius 4)
Editor: Micah Brandhandler (submitted 2010-04-22).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 49 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: This melody only version is derived from the 1917 edition of "Songs and Choruses for Community Singing".

General Information

Title: The spacious firmament on high (tune name CREATION)
Composer: Joseph Haydn
Lyricist: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1710), adapted from Psalm 19

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Unison
Genre: SacredHymn   Meter: 88. 88. D (L.M.D.)

Language: English
Instruments: organ

First published:
Description: This hymn tune was adapted from the chorus The Heavens are telling from Haydn's 1798 oratorio The Creation

External websites:

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at The spacious firmament on high.