Montague (Timothy Swan)

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• (Posted 2016-12-01)  CPDL #42158:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-12-01).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 71 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition. Transcribed from The Worcester Collection, 1792. Two more pairs of stanzas included from Doddridge's hymn.

• (Posted 2016-12-01)  CPDL #42157:   

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-12-01).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 2 pages, 71 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Transcribed from The Worcester Collection, 1792. Two more pairs of stanzas included from Doddridge's hymn.

General Information

Title: Montague
First Line: Ye sons of men with joy record
Composer: Timothy Swan
Lyricist: Philip Doddridge

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1783 in The Gentleman and Lady’s Musical Companion, Edition 3
    2nd published: 1801 in New England Harmony, revised
Description: Words by Philip Doddridge, 1755, entitled God adored for his goodness, with six stanzas. Swan used the first two stanzas of Doddridge's hymn in his composition.

Original text and translations

English text 1. Ye sons of men with joy record The various wonders of the Lord; And let his power and goodness sound Through all your tribes the world around. 2. Let the high heavens your songs invite, Those spacious fields of brilliant light; Where sun, and moon, and planets roll, And stars, that shine from pole to pole.

3. Sing, earth, in verdant robes arrayed, Its herbs and flowers, its fruit and shade; Peopled with life of various forms, Fishes and fowls, and beasts and worms. 4. View the broad sea's majestic plains, And think how wide its Maker reigns; That band remotest nations joins, And on each wave his goodness shines.

5. But, O that brighter world above, Where lives and reigns incarnate love! God's only son in flesh arrayed, For man a bleeding victim made. 6. Thither, my soul, with rapture soar; There in the land of praise adore; The theme demands an angel's tongue, Demands a never-ending song.