Whitestown (Thomas Howell)

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  • (Posted 2024-08-10)  CPDL #81559: 
Shape-note edition (as originally published):        
Oval note edition:  
Editor: Antonio Higgins (submitted 2024-08-10).   Score information: Letter (landscape), 2 pages, 45 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Transcribed from The Sacred Harp (1911).
  • (Posted 2007-11-24)  CPDL #15515:     
Editor: Tim Henderson (submitted 2007-11-24).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 214 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Version taken from The Hesperian Harp.

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Title: Whitestown
First Line: Where nothing dwelt but beasts of prey
Composer: Thomas Howell
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SacredHymn   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1800 The Musical Harmonist (Stephen Jenks)
    2nd published: 1826 Wyeth's Re­pos­i­to­ry of Sac­red Mu­sic (John Wyeth)
    3rd published: 1848 in The Hesperian Harp (William Hauser)
    4th published: 1854 in Southern Harmony
    5th published: 1911 in The Sacred Harp (1911)
Description:  Attributed to "Howd" in The Musical Harmonist. Attributed to Thomas Howell in Wyeth's, The Hesperian Harp, and The Sacred Harp. Misattributed to "Ward" in Southern Harmony. The exact composer is not known. Words by Isaac Watts, verses 3 and 4 of Psalm 107 Last Part.

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Original text and translations

English.png English text

Where nothing dwelt but beasts of prey,
Or men as fierce and wild as they,
He bids th'opressed and poor repair,
And builds them towns and cities there.

They sow the fields and trees they plant
whose yearly fruit supplies their want.
Their race grow up from fruitful stocks;
Their wealth increases with their flocks.

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 107.