The festal morn, my God, is come (from A Ninth Set of Psalm Tunes) (Thomas Clark)
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- CPDL #27191:
(Sibelius 7)
- Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2012-09-21). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 57 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Original order of staves is 2d. - 1st. - [Instrumental bass] in the opening symphony, and Tenor - [Alto] - Treble - [Bass] - [Instrumental bass] thereafter. The 2nd part of the symphony after the verse is given on the Tenor stave in the source, but is given on the Alto stave in the present edition. The Alto part is notated in the treble clef at the upper octave in the source. The first verse of the text is underlaid in the source, with the other verses given here printed after the music.
General Information
Title: The festal morn, my God, is come
Composer: Thomas Clark
Lyricist: James Merrick
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 886. 886
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo
Published: 1830
Description: This setting of verses from James Merrick's metrical version of Psalm 122 was published on pages 25-26 of Thomas Clark's A Ninth Set of Psalm Tunes, London: [c1830].
The same text was previously set by Clark to two different tunes: 'Aldham', in A Fourth Set of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, London: [c1808], and 'Palermo', in Clark's Seventh Book of Hymn Tunes, London: [1813-1815].
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 122.