O God, my heart is fixed, 'tis bent (from A New Set of Anthems and Psalm Tunes) (John Broderip)

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  • (Posted 2015-09-11)  CPDL #36763:      (Sibelius 7)
Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2015-09-11).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 50 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Only verses 7-8 of the text (the first line of text underlaid in this edition) are given in the source: the subsequent verses of the psalm have here been added editorially. The alto and tenor parts are printed in the alto and tenor clefs respectively in the source.

General Information

Title: O God, my heart is fixed, 'tis bent
Composer: John Broderip
Lyricists: Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady (from A new version of the psalms of David)

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SacredHymn   Meter: 88. 88. D (L.M.D.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1745

Description: This setting of verses from Psalm 57 was published on pp36-37 of John Broderip's A New Set of Anthems and Psalm Tunes, London: [1745]. Hymn Tune Index tune number 1788a.

The same text was set to different music by John Broderip in his later collection Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs, London: [1769].

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 57, verses 7-11 of the metrical New Version.