Lord, we beseech thee (Adrian Batten)

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• (Posted 2024-11-06)  CPDL #82621: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2024-11-06).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 57 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. Edition prepared from Barnard and at original pitch.

• (Posted 2020-06-12)  CPDL #59214:       

Editor: Stephen Norton (submitted 2020-06-12).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 102 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: SATB with variable bar lengths.

• (Posted 2010-09-04)  CPDL #22260:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2010-09-04).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 66 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. (for practice only). Revised files uploaded 5/12/17.

• (Posted 2002-07-23)  CPDL #03863:  PDF, MIDI and MusiXTex files

Editor: Andre van Ryckeghem (submitted 2002-07-23).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 75 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: "prayer" underlaid as two syllables

• (Posted 2002-01-09)  CPDL #03155:         

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2002-01-09).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 64 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: barred in measures of unequal length.

Possible error(s) identified. Error summary: m. 22, Tenor should have two crochets: e-a. See the discussion page for full description.

General Information

Title: Lord, we beseech thee
Composer: Adrian Batten
Source of Text: Collect for the 3rd Sunday in Advent, from the 1549 Book of Common Prayer, which has heart, for hearts.

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1641 in John Barnard, The First Book of Selected Church Musick
Description:  The text, adopted from the Sarum missal, was prescribed in early Books of Common Prayer as the Collect for the third Sunday in Advent until it was supplanted in 1662.

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• performance by the dwsChorale

Original text and translations

English text

Lord, we beseech thee,
give ear unto our prayers,
and by thy gracious visitation
lighten the darkness of our hearts,
by our Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen.