Great is our Lord (William Sterndale Bennett)

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• (Posted 2025-09-10)  CPDL #86742:     

Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-09-10).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 265 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Edited directly from a scan of MS Odling Sterndale Bennett 52, housed at the Bodleian Libraries. No organ accompaniment is provided for the first two sections of the piece; this has been provided editorially, in the same style as the third section. A note in pencil at the start of the piece reads "see organ accompt on other sheet"; the "other sheet" does not contain a suitable organ accompaniment for the opening, but rather a two-staff reduction of what is possibly an early version of the work, echoing the opening of the piece. This has been included in the present edition as an appendix.

General Information

Title: Great is our Lord
Composer: William Sterndale Bennett
Text: Psalm 147:5-6, 11
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: English
Instruments: Organ

    Manuscript Odling Sterndale Bennett 52, not dated
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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 147.

English text

Great is our Lord, and great is his power: yea, and his wisdom is infinite.
The Lord setteth up the meek: and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground.
But the Lord's delight is in them that fear him: and put their trust in his mercy.