Harpersfield (Zalmon Peck)

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• (Posted 2025-10-25)  CPDL #87222:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2025-10-25).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 61 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Musical Medley, 1808. Note heads replaced by four-shape ones.

General Information

Title: Harpersfield
First Line: God is our refuge in distress
Composer: Zalmon Peck
Lyricist: Tate and Brady^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TrTrTB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune   Meter: 888. 888

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1808 in The Musical Medley, no. 12
Description: Words by Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, 1696, New Version paraphrase of Psalm 46, with five stanzas. Peck used the first stanza in his composition.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 46.