Now let our souls on wings sublime (Thomas Clark)

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• (Posted 2015-05-22)  CPDL #35502:  Sibelius 7

Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2015-05-22).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 55 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: subsequent verses have here been added editorially.

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Title: Now let our souls on wings sublime
Composer: Thomas Clark
Tune: Golzenna
Lyricist: Thomas Gibbons

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo

Published: 1809

Description: This setting was published on p78 of Thomas Clark's A Fifth Set of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, London: [c1809]. Hymn Tune Index tune number 12804.

The tune name 'Golzenna' is an older form of the placename 'Goldsithney', a settlement in the parish of Perranuthnoe, in Cornwall. The spelling 'Golzenna' is used, for example, on p24 of Thomas Pride & Philip Luckombe's The Traveller's Companion, London: 1789.

External websites:

• The Traveller's Companion, London: 1789, using the spelling 'Golzenna' for Goldsithney

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Now let our souls on wings sublime.