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(Posted 2023-10-03) CPDL #75980:

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-10-03). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 39 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: For TB. Transcribed from The Waterhouse Manuscript, 1780-1781. The first stanza of Watts' hymn included.

(Posted 2023-10-03) CPDL #75979:

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-10-03). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 52 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Continental Harmony, 1794. Three double stanzas included.

(Posted 2014-08-19) CPDL #32725:

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-08-19). Score information: Letter (landscape), 1 page, 59 kB Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Continental Harmony, 1794. Note shapes added (4-shape). Three double stanzas included. Re-formatted 2023-10-03.

(Posted 2009-05-12) CPDL #19460:

Editor: Michael Lauer (submitted 2009-05-12). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 81 kB Copyright: Personal

Edition notes:

General Information

Title: Cobham
First Line: Teach me the measure of my days
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune Meter: 86. 86. D (C.M.D.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Manuscript 1780 – 1781 in The Waterhouse Manuscript, no. 19
First published: 1794 in The Continental Harmony
Description: This work first appears in The Waterhouse Manuscript, 1780-1781, as "Raynham" for Tenor and Bass and attributed to Billings, so it must have been composed before 1780. Published later, on pages 185-186 of The Continental Harmony (1794). Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, paraphrase of Psalm 39, Part 2, with six stanzas; Billings used two of Watts' C. M. stanzas for each one in his composition.

External websites:

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 39.

Retrieved from "https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cobham_(William_Billings)&oldid=1775450"

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 ==General Information==
-'''Title:''' ''Teach me the measure of my days''<br>
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-{{Genre|Sacred|Hymns}} &nbsp; {{Meter|86. 86. D (C.M.D.)}}
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 {{Language|English}}
 {{Instruments|A cappella}}
-'''Published:''' 1794
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+{{Pub|1|1794|in ''[[The Continental Harmony (William Billings)|The Continental Harmony]]''}}
-'''Description:''' Published on pages 185-186 of {{NoComp|The Continental Harmony|William Billings}} (1794).
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-'''External websites:'''
 ==Original text and translations==
 {{LinkText|Psalm 39}}
+[[Category:Four-shape note editions]]
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