Potomac (Amos Pilsbury)

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• (Posted 2018-01-20)  CPDL #48477:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-01-20).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 77 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition. All four of Hopkinson's stanzas included.

• (Posted 2018-01-20)  CPDL #48476:   

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-01-20).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 57 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). All four of Hopkinson's stanzas included.

General Information

Title: Potomac
First Line: Jehovah reigns, let all
Composer: Amos Pilsbury
Lyricist: Francis Hopkinson

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune   Meter: 666. 666. 666

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1799 in Pilsbury's The United States Sacred Harmony, p. 179
Description: Words by Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, 1698, New Version paraphrase of Psalm 99, as revised by Francis Hopkinson, 1767. Hopkinson's revision has four nine-line stanzas.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 99.