Williamstown (Daniel Belknap)

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• (Posted 2015-12-05)  CPDL #37771:  MusicXML

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-12-05).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 73 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Four-part version. Counter part written by B. C. Johnston, 2015. Oval note edition. All five stanzas included.

• (Posted 2015-12-05)  CPDL #37770: 

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-12-05).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 75 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Four-part version. Counter part written by B. C. Johnston, 2015. Note shapes added (4-shape). All five stanzas included.

• (Posted 2015-12-05)  CPDL #37769:  MusicXML

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-12-05).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 71 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Three-part version. Oval note edition, as written in 1802. All five stanzas included.

• (Posted 2015-12-05)  CPDL #37768: 

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-12-05).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 69 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Three-part version. Note shapes added (4-shape). All five stanzas included.

General Information

Title: Williamstown
First Line: Almighty King of heaven above
Composer: Daniel Belknap
Lyricist: Anonymous

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB

Genre: Sacred   Meter: 886. 886

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1802

Description: Published in The Middlesex Collection, 1802, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass. Words by an anonymous author, apparently first published in 1795, in Jeremy Belknap's Sacred Poetry, with five stanzas.

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Original text and translations

English text 1. Almighty King of heaven above, Eternal source of truth and love, And Lord of all below, With reverence and religious fear, Permit thy suppliants to draw near, And at thy feet to bow. 2. Thy sovereign fiat formed us first, Thy breath can blow us back to dust, Frail, sinful, mortal clay; ‘Tis thine undoubted right to give, Those earthly blessings we receive , And thine to take away.

3. All things are under thy control, Eternal wisdom rules the whole, Educing good from ill; Submissive therefore we resign Our wills are swallowed up in thine, In thy most holy will. 4. In heaven above, thy will is done, There, angels wait around thy throne. Thy counsels to obey; Adoring at thy feet they fall, Confess thee sovereign Lord of all, And own thy powerful sway.

5. Lord, may we join the heavenly throng. May mortals learn the angelic song, Who dwell beneath the sun; May every tongue thy praise proclaim, This be the universal theme, " Jehovah's will be done."

Submission to the divine will, unattributed in Jeremy Belknap's Sacred Poetry, Consisting of Psalms and Hymns... (Boston, 1795)