Twelve Anthems (James Kent)

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General information

Published London. No date, but probably between 1769 and 1776.

Size: 37cm high × 26cm wide.

Pages: 100 with additional end papers.

This was the first volume of Kent's anthems to be published.

Contents

i

Title page

TWELVE ANTHEMS

Composed by

James Kent

ORGANIST of the CATHEDRAL

and

COLLEGE

at

Winchester


LONDON:

Printed & sold by Preston and Sons

No 97 Strand & Exeter Change

ii

Dedication

To

The Revd Newton Ogle D. D. Dean,

and to the CHAPTER of Winchester:

To the Revd Harry Lee D. D. Warden

and to the FELLOWS of the COLLEGE

near that Place:

These Select Pieces of Church Musick

His peculiar and beloved Study

composed particularly for their respective CHOIRS

are Inscribed.

with a most grateful Sense of the many Civilities conferred

by them and their Predecessors, and continued through a

long Course of Years:

by their dutiful

and obliged Servant

James Kent.

iii

Index

Contents

Page Work
1 Sing, O heavens
8 Hear my prayer
13 All thy works praise thee
24 Lord, what love have I unto thy law
31 The Lord hath prepared
40 Why do the heathen
45 My song shall be of mercy
52 When the Son of Man
62 Who is this that cometh from Bozrah
72 Blessed be thou, Lord God
82 In the beginning was the Word
96 Lord, how are they increased