Manchester (William Billings)
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- 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.
- Editor: Michael Lauer (submitted 2007-12-14). Score information: Letter (landscape), 2 pages, 84 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: Manchester
First Line: Let the shrill trumpet's warlike voice
Composer: William Billings
Lyricists: Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady (from A new version of the psalms of David)
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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.