Hark, ten thousand harps and voices (Thomas Clark)
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- Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2015-06-04). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 60 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: The order of parts in the source is Alto - Tenor - Air - Bass, with the Alto and Tenor parts given in the treble clef an octave above sounding pitch. The second quaver of bar 13 in the tenor part, given here as a G, is printed in the source as the B a major third higher. Only the first verse of the text is given in the source: subsequent verses have here been added editorially. The three verses given here are those printed as Hymn 136 in A New Selection of Hymns, especially adapted to Public Worship, and intended as a supplement to Dr. Watts' Psalms and Hymns, London: Printed for the Proprietors, by J Haddon, Castle Street, City Road, 1828. These are verses 1, 6 and 7 of the seven verses written by Thomas Kelly.
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General Information
Title: Hark, ten thousand harps and voices
Composer: Thomas Clark
Tune: Cashmere
Lyricist: Thomas Kelly
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 87. 87. 77
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo
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Description: This setting was published as tune 646 on p486 of Thomas Clark's The Congregational Harmonist, Book 4, No. 27, London: [c1836].
This setting is attributed 'T. Clark' in The Congregational Harmonist, where it is marked with a crossed circle, a symbol used in that book to indicate 'originals' (i.e. tunes not previously published).
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