Creation (Philo Sherman)

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• (Posted 2025-10-30)  CPDL #87271:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2025-10-30).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 52 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Musical Medley, 1808. Another stanza added from Watts' poem. Note heads replaced with four-shape ones.

General Information

Title: Creation
First Line: When God the new-made world surveyed
Composer: Philo Sherman
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TrCtTB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1808 in The Musical Medley, no. 34
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1534, Reliquiae juveniles, p. 38, with three stanzas. Sherman used the first stanza in his composition.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at When God the new-made world surveyed.