Weymouth (William Billings)

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  • (Posted 2023-12-10)  CPDL #78040:         
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-12-10).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 52 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Transcribed from Massachusetts Historical Society Ms. S-290, ca. 1790. for TrCtTB. Two stanzas of Watts' hymn included.
  • (Posted 2023-09-19)  CPDL #75543:         
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-09-19).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 50 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Transcribed from The Waterhouse Manuscript, 1780, for TB.
  • (Posted 2015-05-14)  CPDL #35399:     
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-05-14).   Score information: Letter (landscape), 1 page, 83 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Transcribed from The Columbian Harmony, 1794, for TrCtTB. Note shapes added (4-shape).
  • (Posted 2014-08-03)  CPDL #32593:       
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2014-08-03).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 45 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Transcribed from The Continental Harmony, 1794, for TrCtTB. Oval-note format. The two other stanzas from Watts' hymn added below.

General Information

Title: Weymouth
First Line: Shall we go on to sin
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TB
Genre: SacredSet piece   Meter: 66. 86 (S.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript 1780 in The Waterhouse Manuscript for TB, no. 6
    Manuscript ca. 1790 in Massachusetts Historical Society Ms. S-290 for TrCtTB, no. 6
First published: 1794 in The Continental Harmony for TrCtTB
Description: Probably composed 1780 or before. This tune first appeared in manuscript in 1780 for two parts (TB) and in a later manuscript ca. 1790 in expanded form for four parts, apparently transcribed from singing-school sessions (perhaps led by Billings himself). It was not published until 1794, and then in similar form to the ca. 1790 manuscript. All three versions begin in 3:2 time and progress to a cut-time coda. Words by Isaac Watts, 1709, his Hymn 106 of Book 1.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Shall we go on to sin.