Now begin the heavenly theme (Burton) (Thomas Clark)
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- Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2014-09-29). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 57 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: The order of staves in the source is Tenor - [Alto] - Air - [Bass], with the alto part printed in the treble clef an octave above sounding pitch. Only the first verse of text is given in the source: three selected subsequent verses have here been added editorially. The soprano C on beat 3 of bar 2, and the soprano E and tenor C on beat 3 of bar 4, are all printed in the source as small grace notes.
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General Information
Title: Now begin the heavenly theme
Composer: Thomas Clark
Tune: Burton
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 77. 77
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo
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Description: This setting was published on p25 of Thomas Clark's A Second Set of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, London: (1806). Hymn Tune Index tune number 11411.
The same text was set by Clark to two other tunes: 'Barham', in his collection A Fifth Set of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, London: [c1809], and 'Baltistan', in The Congregational Harmonist, London: [c1836].
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Now begin the heavenly theme.