Saybrook (William Billings)

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• (Posted 2023-12-05)  CPDL #77862:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-12-05).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 63 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Massachusetts Historical Society Ms. S-290, ca. 1790.

• (Posted 2015-04-23)  CPDL #35185:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-04-23).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 66 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition. All four stanzas included.

• (Posted 2015-04-23)  CPDL #35184:     

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-04-23).   Score information: 7 x 10 in (landscape), 1 page, 60 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). All four stanzas included.

General Information

Title: Saybrook
First Line: My God, what inward grief I feel
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.) (1779) Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.) (ca. 1790)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1779 in Music in Miniature, no. 69
    Manuscript ca. 1790 as Dunstable in Massachusetts Historical Society Ms. S-290, no. 3
Description: First published in Music In Miniature, 1779, p. 30, without words. It was considerably amended by Billings ca. 1790, reducing the meter to 86. 86. (C. M.), with words "Methinks I see me Savior dear," a stanza later used by Billings in 1794 for part of the words to his "St. Thomas", a different tune. Words to the 1779 L. M. tune were later chosen by Nathan (1979): Isaac Watts, 1719, paraphrase of Psalm 139.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at St. Thomas (William Billings) and Psalm 139.