My former hopes are fled (Thomas Clark)

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• (Posted 2015-06-04)  CPDL #35651:        (Sibelius 7)

Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2015-06-04).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 45 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: The order of parts in the source is Alto - Tenor - Air - Bass, with the Alto and Tenor parts given in the treble clef an octave above sounding pitch. Only the first verse of the text is given in the source: subsequent verses have here been added editorially.

General Information

Title: My former hopes are fled
Composer: Thomas Clark
Tune: Stockton
Lyricist: William Cowper

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 66. 86 (S.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1836 in The Congregational Harmonist, Book 4, No. 27, London, as tune 634 on p. 478
Description: This setting is attributed 'T. Clark' in The Congregational Harmonist, where it is marked with a crossed circle, a symbol used in that book to indicate 'originals' (i.e. tunes not previously published). Words by William Cowper, 1779, Hymn 8 of Book 3, entitled The Shining Light. Clark has amended the first line of Cowper's hymn from "My former hopes are dead."

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at My former hopes are dead.