O Lord, how glorious and how great (Joseph Key)

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  • (Posted 2016-06-03)  CPDL #39920:      (Sibelius 7)
Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2016-06-03).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 42 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: The alto part is printed in the source in the treble clef an octave above sounding pitch. Only the first verse of the text given here (verse 5 of Hopkins' Ps. 92) is printed in the source: three further verses have been added editorially.

General Information

Title: O Lord, how glorious and how great
Composer: Joseph Key
Lyricist: John Hopkins

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SacredHymn   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1790

Description: This setting of Ps. 92 in the metrical Old Version, starting at the fifth verse, was published on p19 of the fourth book of Joseph Key's music to be published, Five Anthems and Four Hymns, London: [c1790]. Hymn Tune Index tune number 5444.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 92.