New Lebanon (Philo Sherman)
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- (Posted 2025-10-24) CPDL #87221:
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2025-10-24). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 58 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transcribed from The Musical Medley, 1808. One more stanza included from Watts' paraphrase. Note heads converted to four-shape format.
General Information
Title: New Lebanon
First Line: Great God, the heavens' well-ordered frame
Composer: Philo Sherman
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: TrCtTB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune Meter: 88. 88. 88
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1808 in The Musical Medley, no. 11
2nd published: 1820 in Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony
3rd published: 1835 in Southern Harmony, Edition 1
4th published: 1844 in The Sacred Harp (1844)
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, paraphrase of Psalm 19, Part 4, with eight stanzas. Sherman used the first stanza in his composition. This tune also appears in Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony 1820, Southern Harmony 1835-1847 p. 159, and in The Sacred Harp 1844–1991 p. 202.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 19.