Germantown (William Billings)

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• (Posted 2023-10-02)  CPDL #75962:       

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-10-02).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 53 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Waterhouse Manuscript, copied 1781, and from Massachusetts Historical Society Ms. S-290, ca. 1790. The first and fifth stanzas from Watts' paraphrase added.

• (Posted 2023-10-02)  CPDL #75961:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-10-02).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 53 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Waterhouse Manuscript, copied 1781, and from Massachusetts Historical Society Ms. S-290, ca. 1790. Note shapes (4-shape) added. The first and fifth stanzas from Watts' paraphrase included.

General Information

Title: Germantown
First Line: Why do we mourn departing friends
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TrCTB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript 1780 – 1781 in The Waterhouse Manuscript, no. 18
    Manuscript ca. 1790 in Massachusetts Historical Society Ms. S-290, no. 5
Description: Composed 1780 or before. Appears first in The Waterhouse Manuscript, copied March 16, 1781, for Tenor-Bass; and in The Shepard Fish Manuscript (Massachusetts Historical Society Ms. S-290), ca. 1790, for Treble-Counter-Tenor. Kroeger (1981) gives suggestions about merging these. Words by Isaac Watts, 1709, Hymn 3 of Book 2, with six stanzas. The manuscripts have only the first stanza.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Why do we mourn departing friends.