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'''Published:''' 1821
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Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2011-12-15).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 56 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: The source has the fully written-out keyboard accompaniment given here: the title page of Hempel's A Morning and an Evening Service describes the work as 'in Score, with a Separate Accompaniment for the Organ or Piano Forte'.

General Information

Title: Thou turnest man, O Lord, to dust
Composer: Charles William Hempel
Lyricists: Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady (from A new version of the psalms of David)

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SacredHymn

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

Published: 1821

Description: A setting of Psalm 90 in the metrical New Version, by Charles William Hempel, from p34-35 of his collection A Morning and an Evening Service (London, [1821]). Original clefs of the voice parts are treble, alto, tenor, and bass. Verses 3-4 only of the text are underlaid in the source, where the text of verses 5-6 is given in full after the music of this setting.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 90.