Joseph Stephenson
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Life
Born: 1723
Died: 1810
Biography
Joseph Stephenson was a composer of parochial psalmody (West Gallery music) and clerk of the Unitarian congregation at the Hill Street meeting house in Poole. His first book, Church Harmony Sacred to Devotion (first edition 1757) included a commendatory letter of review from William Knapp, who was the parish clerk of St. James', Poole and an established composer.
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List of choral works
- For works at CPDL sorted alphabetically by title, see Joseph Stephenson compositions
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Anthems
Metrical psalms, hymns and carols
- Against all those that strive with me (
Sibelius 7 ) - Arise and hail the sacred day ( Sibelius 3 )
- Attend, O Earth, whilst I declare ( Sibelius 3 )
- He's blest whose sins have pardon gained ( Sibelius 3 )
- He's come, let every knee be bent ( Sibelius 3 )
- How blest is he who ne'er consents ( Sibelius 3 )
- How long wilt thou forget me, Lord? ( Sibelius 7 )
- How num'rous, Lord, of late are grown ( Sibelius 3 )
- Let all the lands with shouts of joy ( Sibelius 3 )
- Look down, O God, regard my cry ( Sibelius 3 )
- O Lord, that art my righteous Judge ( Sibelius 3 )
- O thou to whom all creatures bow ( Sibelius 3 )
- Since I have placed my trust in God ( Sibelius 3 )
- Since godly men decay, O Lord ( Sibelius 7 )
- The King, O Lord, with songs of praise ( Sibelius 3 )
- The Lord to thy request attend ( Sibelius 7 )
- Through all the changing scenes of life ( Sibelius 3 )
- Thus in thy sacred courts will I ( Sibelius 7 )
- Thy presence why withdraw'st thou, Lord? ( Sibelius 6 )
- To celebrate thy praise, O Lord ( Sibelius 3 )
- To my just plea and sad complaint ( Sibelius 7 )
Secular songs
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Publications
- Church Harmony Sacred to Devotion, first edition 1757 (no known extant copies); third edition 1759; fourth edition c1763-1771
- An Anthem taken out of the 44 Chap. of Isaiah, 1758
- A new Loyal Health to the Prince, Duke, and the Heroic King of Prussia, 1758
- The Musical Companion, 1771
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