O that I knew the secret place (Orford) (Thomas Clark)
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- Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2015-12-20). Score information: A4, 1 page, 46 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: The order of staves in the source is Tenor - [Alto] - Air - [Bass], with the alto part printed in the treble clef an octave above sounding pitch. Only the first verse of text is given in the source: the subsequent verses given in John Rippon's Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors have here been added editorially. These omit Isaac Watts' original verse 3, beginning 'I'd say, "How flesh and sense rebel"'.
- MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: O that I knew the secret place
Composer: Thomas Clark
Tune: Orford
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo
First published: 1809 in A Fifth Set of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, London, p. 86
Description: Hymn Tune Index tune number 12836.
The same text was also set by Clark to two other tunes: Harborough, in his collection A Fourth Set of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, London: [c1808], and Hillington in An Eleventh Set of Hymn Tunes, London: [c1820].
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at O that I knew the secret place.