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: Sacred, Hymn   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

Original text and translations

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