Philadelphia (Francis Hopkinson)

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• (Posted 2017-10-15)  CPDL #46816:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-10-15).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 40 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition.

• (Posted 2017-10-15)  CPDL #46815:   

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-10-15).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 44 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Transcribed from Dyer's New Selection of Sacred Music, 1820, p. 50 (no. 37). Note shapes added (4-shape). All nine stanzas of Watts' paraphrase included.

General Information

Title: Philadelphia
First Line: Our God, our help in ages past
Composer: Francis Hopkinson
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1806 Tenor and Bass in Aitken's Collection of Divine Music
    2nd published: 1816 Treble in A Collection of Chants
    3rd published: 1817 Counter in Dyer's A New Selection of Sacred Music
Description: It is uncertain what Hopkinson's role was in this; he died in 1791. Words by Isaac Watts, 1717, paraphrase of Psalm 90, Part 1, with nine stanzas.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 90.