• To submit scores or edit pages, register/log in and you'll be redirected to the Contributor ChoralWiki • |
Lord, save me, for thy glorious name (Samuel Arnold)
From ChoralWiki
Music files
= BROKEN LINK
= EXTERNAL SITE (DISCLAIMER)
= SCORE ERROR
= HELP- Editor: Tim Henderson (submitted 2006-02-04). Score information: A4, 1 page, 43 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: for STB. The tune is taken from Musica Sacra (Utica 1834?). The words are original New Version metrical psalter (Tate and Brady) Psalm 54 - text used by Arnold in his original publication according to Hymn Tune Index.
- Editor: Tim Henderson (submitted 2007-11-03). Score information: A4, 1 page, 268 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: for SATB. Taken from "The Psalms of David for the Use of Parish Churches" Arnold and Callcott 1791 where it is given as the psalm for the Third Sunday in Lent.
General Information
Title: Lord, save me, for thy glorious name
Composer: Samuel Arnold
Tune: Plympton
Lyricists: Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady (from A new version of the psalms of David)
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: STB or SATB arrangement
Genre: Sacred, Hymn
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1791
Description: This setting of Psalm 54 in the metrical New Version was first published in Arnold and Callcott's collection The Psalms of David for the Use of Parish Churches, where the tune was not named. The tune was widely reprinted in American collections with different texts, usually under the tune name 'Plympton' (or 'Plymton' in some early sources). Hymn Tune Index tune number 5639.
External websites:
Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 54.


