Duxborough (William Billings)
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-10-06). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 52 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Note shapes (4-shape) added. Transcribed from The Waterhouse Manuscript, as "New Haven", copied by Susanna Heath March 17, 1781. This is a later revision of Duxborough (Billings 1770, 1778, 1779) with improved harmony, a better key (f#), and better rhythm (6:4). Why was this version not published? Words supplied by Heath in 1781 from an anonymous author:
- Come now, my soul, my heart and tongue,
- Come join my muse, my voice, my song,
- To praise the power that rules the skies;
- My soul the highest notes would raise.
- Words in this edition are by Isaac Watts 1709, "Not to condemn the souls of men", from Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Hymn 100 of Book 1.
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-12-01). Score information: 7 x 10 in (landscape), 1 page, 48 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape).
General Information
Title: Duxborough
First Line: In vain the wealthy mortals toil
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1770 in The New-England Psalm-Singer
2nd published: 1778 in The Singing Master's Assistant
3rd published: 1779 in Music in Miniature, no. 18
Manuscript 1780 – 1781 in The Waterhouse Manuscript, no. 20
Description: Originally published in The New-England Psalm-Singer, 1770, p. 8, without words. Revised in 1778, with words added from Isaac Watts, 1709, Hymn 24 (Book 1). in 1781, it appeared in The Watershed Manuscript in an improved version.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at In vain the wealthy mortals toil and Not to condemn the sons of men.