Framingham (William Billings)

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• CPDL #32356: 

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-06-29).   Score information: Letter (landscape), 1 page, 41 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape).

• CPDL #15660: 

Editor: Michael Lauer (submitted 2007-12-13).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 86 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Framingham
First Line: Shall wisdom cry aloud
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 66. 86 (S.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1779

Description: First published in Music In Miniature, 1779, p. 3; revised in The Psalm-Singer's Amusement, 1781, pp. 4-5. Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, his Hymn 92 of Book 1, but Billings has substituted "Son" for "Word."

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Original text and translations

English text

Shall Wisdom cry aloud,
And not her speech be heard?
The voice of God's eternal Word,
Deserves it no regard?