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==General Information==
==General Information==
'''Title:''' ''Now begin the heavenly theme''<br>
{{Title|''Now begin the heavenly theme''}}
{{Composer|Thomas Clark}}
{{Composer|Thomas Clark}}
'''Tune:''' ''Burton''<br>
'''Tune:''' ''Burton''<br>

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  • CPDL #33045:        (Sibelius 7)
Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2014-09-29).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 57 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: The order of staves in the source is Tenor - [Alto] - Air - [Bass], with the alto part printed in the treble clef an octave above sounding pitch. Only the first verse of text is given in the source: three selected subsequent verses have here been added editorially. The soprano C on beat 3 of bar 2, and the soprano E and tenor C on beat 3 of bar 4, are all printed in the source as small grace notes.

General Information

Title: Now begin the heavenly theme
Composer: Thomas Clark
Tune: Burton
Lyricist: Anonymous

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SacredHymn   Meter: 77. 77

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1806 in A Second Set of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, p. 25

Description: Hymn Tune Index tune number 11411.

The same text was set by Clark to two other tunes: 'Barham', in his collection A Fifth Set of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, London: [c1809], and 'Baltistan', in The Congregational Harmonist, London: [c1836].

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Now begin the heavenly theme.