Rainbow (Timothy Swan)
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Music files
ICON | SOURCE |
---|---|
Midi | |
MusicXML | |
File details | |
Help |
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-11-23). Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 80 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). As revised by Swan in 1801; notes changed from 1785 shown in blue, deleted notes in gray.
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-11-21). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 81 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Oval note edition, as written in 1785. The other four stanzas of Watts' paraphrase added below.
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-11-21). Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 77 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Version of 1785. Note shapes added (4-shape). The other four stanzas of Watts' paraphrase added below.
- Editor: Tim Henderson (submitted 2007-11-12). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 315 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Version from the Hesperian Harp, 1848.
General Information
Title: Rainbow
First Line: Tis by thy strength the mountains stand
Composer: Timothy Swan
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
First published: 1785 in Brownson' Select Harmony and a book by Daniel Bayley; revised in New England Harmony, p. 61
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, his paraphrase of Psalm 65, Part 2, in five stanzas. Hymn Tune Index tune number 4523.
External websites:
Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 65.