Weymouth (William Billings)

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• (Posted 2023-12-10)  CPDL #78040:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-12-10).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 52 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Massachusetts Historical Society Ms. S-290, ca. 1790. for TrCtTB. Two stanzas of Watts' hymn included.

• (Posted 2023-09-19)  CPDL #75543:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-09-19).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 50 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Waterhouse Manuscript, 1780, for TB.

• (Posted 2015-05-14)  CPDL #35399:     

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-05-14).   Score information: Letter (landscape), 1 page, 83 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Columbian Harmony, 1794, for TrCtTB. Note shapes added (4-shape).

• (Posted 2014-08-03)  CPDL #32593:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-08-03).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 45 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Continental Harmony, 1794, for TrCtTB. Oval-note format. The two other stanzas from Watts' hymn added below.

General Information

Title: Weymouth
First Line: Shall we go on to sin
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TB
Genre: Sacred, Set piece   Meter: 66. 86 (S.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript 1780 in The Waterhouse Manuscript for TB, no. 6
    Manuscript ca. 1790 in Massachusetts Historical Society Ms. S-290 for TrCtTB, no. 6
First published: 1794 in The Continental Harmony for TrCtTB
Description: Probably composed 1780 or before. This tune first appeared in manuscript in 1780 for two parts (TB) and in a later manuscript ca. 1790 in expanded form for four parts, apparently transcribed from singing-school sessions (perhaps led by Billings himself). It was not published until 1794, and then in similar form to the ca. 1790 manuscript. All three versions begin in 3:2 time and progress to a cut-time coda. Words by Isaac Watts, 1709, his Hymn 106 of Book 1.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Shall we go on to sin.