Rainbow (Timothy Swan)

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• (Posted 2015-11-23)  CPDL #37642:     

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-11-23).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 80 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). As revised by Swan in 1801; notes changed from 1785 shown in blue, deleted notes in gray.

• (Posted 2015-11-21)  CPDL #37614:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-11-21).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 81 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition, as written in 1785. The other four stanzas of Watts' paraphrase added below.

• (Posted 2015-11-21)  CPDL #37613:     

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-11-21).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 77 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Version of 1785. Note shapes added (4-shape). The other four stanzas of Watts' paraphrase added below.

• (Posted 2007-11-12)  CPDL #15395:     

Editor: Tim Henderson (submitted 2007-11-12).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 315 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Version from the Hesperian Harp, 1848.

General Information

Title: Rainbow
First Line: Tis by thy strength the mountains stand
Composer: Timothy Swan
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella

First published: 1785 in Brownson' Select Harmony and a book by Daniel Bayley; revised in New England Harmony, p. 61
Description: Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, his paraphrase of Psalm 65, Part 2, in five stanzas. Hymn Tune Index tune number 4523.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 65.