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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-10-15). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 40 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Oval note edition.
- 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.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 90.