Mansfield (William Billings)

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• (Posted 2015-04-24)  CPDL #35188: 

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-04-24).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 82 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition.

• (Posted 2015-04-24)  CPDL #35187: 

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-04-24).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 74 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Three more stanzas of Watts' paraphrase added below.

General Information

Title: Mansfield
First Line: Think, mighty God, on feeble man
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 88. 88. 88

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1779

Description: First published in Music In Miniature, 1779, p. 30, without words. Words given, apparently by Billings, as Isaac Watts 1719 paraphrase of Psalm 89, upon revision of The Psalm-Singer's Amusement, published 1804 (see Nathan 1977).

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 89.