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Joseph Stephenson was a composer of parochial psalmody (West Gallery music) and clerk of the Unitarian congregation at the Hill Street meeting house in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poole Poole]. | Joseph Stephenson was a composer of parochial psalmody (West Gallery music) and clerk of the Unitarian congregation at the Hill Street meeting house in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poole Poole]. His first book, ''Church Harmony Sacred to Devotion'' (first edition 1757) included a commendatory letter of review from [[William Knapp]], who was the parish clerk of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James%27_Church,_Poole St. James', Poole] and an established composer. | ||
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Life
Born: 1723
Died: 1810
Biography
Joseph Stephenson was a composer of parochial psalmody (West Gallery music) and clerk of the Unitarian congregation at the Hill Street meeting house in Poole. His first book, Church Harmony Sacred to Devotion (first edition 1757) included a commendatory letter of review from William Knapp, who was the parish clerk of St. James', Poole and an established composer.
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List of choral works
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- Arise and hail the sacred day (
Sibelius 3 ) - Attend, O Earth, whilst I declare ( Sibelius 3 )
- Hear my prayer, O Lord ( Sibelius 3 )
- He's blest whose sins have pardon gained ( Sibelius 3 )
- He's come, let every knee be bent ( Sibelius 3 )
- How blest is he who ne'er consents ( Sibelius 3 )
- How num'rous, Lord, of late are grown ( Sibelius 3 )
- Let all the lands with shouts of joy ( Sibelius 3 )
- Look down, O God, regard my cry ( Sibelius 3 )
- O Lord, that art my righteous Judge ( Sibelius 3 )
- O Sion, that bringest good tidings ( Sibelius 3 )
- O thou to whom all creatures bow ( Sibelius 3 )
- Since I have placed my trust in God ( Sibelius 3 )
- The King, O Lord, with songs of praise ( Sibelius 3 )
- Through all the changing scenes of life ( Sibelius 3 )
- Thy presence why withdraw'st thou, Lord? ( Sibelius 6 )
- To celebrate thy praise, O Lord ( Sibelius 3 )
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Publications
- Church Harmony Sacred to Devotion, first edition 1757 (no known extant copies); third edition 1759; fourth edition c1763-1771
- An Anthem taken out of the 44 Chap. of Isaiah, 1758
- A new Loyal Health to the Prince, Duke, and the Heroic King of Prussia, 1758
- The Musical Companion, 1771
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