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:'''Edition notes:''' Note shapes added (4-shape). Billings published ''Manchester'' in 1781 with the third and fourth stanzas of Tate and Brady's paraphrase of Psalm 150; I added the first and second stanzas above the second stanza in this edition.
:'''Edition notes:''' Note shapes added (4-shape). Billings published ''Manchester'' in 1781 with the third and fourth stanzas of Tate and Brady's paraphrase of Psalm 150; I added the first and second stanzas above in this edition.


==General Information==
==General Information==

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Editor: Michael Lauer (submitted 2007-12-14).   Score information: Letter (landscape), 2 pages, 84 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes:
CPDL #34436:  Icon_pdf.gif 
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-01-30).   Score information: Unknown, 2 pages, 118 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Billings published Manchester in 1781 with the third and fourth stanzas of Tate and Brady's paraphrase of Psalm 150; I added the first and second stanzas above in this edition.

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: SacredHymn   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1781

Description: Manchester was first published in Music In Miniature, 1779. This setting of verses from Psalm 150 in the metrical New Version was published in William Billings' The Psalm-Singer's Amusement, 1781. Hymn Tune Index tune number 4113b.

External websites: http://www.mrlauer.org/music/

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 150.