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- Editor: Michael Lauer (submitted 2007-12-14). Score information: Letter (landscape), 2 pages, 84 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Let the shrill trumpet's warlike voice
Composer: William Billings
Tune: Manchester
Lyricists: Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady (from A new version of the psalms of David)
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1781
Description: This setting of verses from Psalm 150 in the metrical New Version was published in William Billings' The Psalm-Singer's Amusement, Boston: 1781. Hymn Tune Index tune number 4113b.
External websites: http://www.mrlauer.org/music/
Original text and translations
English text
Let the shrill trumpet’s warlike voice
make rocks and hills His praise rebound.
Praise Him with harps’ melodious noise
and gentle psaltry’s silver sound.
Let Virgin Troops soft timbrels bring
and some with graceful motion dance.
Let instruments with various strings with organs joined,
His praise advance, with organs joined.