Comfort ye my people (John Hawkins)
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- Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2023-03-09). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 87 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: The allocation of the soprano and tenor parts is not specified in the source, although the third line down is specified as 'Air'
at the start of this and other pieces in the book, and the 'Air' and bass parts are bracketed together. Given the prevalence
throughout the book of passages in parallel thirds in the topmost line (either unaccompanied, or with bass accompaniment
only), that line has been treated here as the soprano part, and the air as the tenor part. All three upper parts are printed in
the source in the treble clef, with the alto printed an octave above sounding pitch: it has been given here at the sounding
pitch. The voicing of the solo vocal line at bars 40-55 is similarly not specified in the source.
The vocal bass part is figured in the opening and concluding chorus sections in the source (although the instrumental bass
is not figured in bars 40-55): the figuring has been omitted from this edition.
The opening and concluding duple-time choruses, given here as alla breve, are printed with a retorted time signature in
the source.
Dynamics are printed as PIA: and FOR: between the second and third staves down in the source: they have been given in
the usual manner here, in all four parts.
The minim rest in the first half of bar 56 has been added editorially, to accommodate the repeat of the concluding chorus
more easily: in the source, this repeat is marked, but bar 56 contains the sung minim (as given here on beat 2 of this bar)
only.
General Information
Title: Comfort ye my people
Composer: John Hawkins
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem
Language: English
Instruments:
First published: 1812 in A New Set of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, p. 52
Description: In addition to its published source, versions of this anthem occur in a manuscript collection from Otterton in Devon (Devon Heritage Centre, ref. 2423A/PR/12), the manuscript of Edward Quayle of the Isle of Man (see The Promised Land: Country Anthems from the Collection of Edward Quayle, ed. Fenella Bazin, Liverpool: 2000), and the manuscript book of John & Robert Wharton of Coniston (see the recording A Different Lore: The Antient Psalmody of Cumbria by the Lancaster choir The Gladly Solemn Sound, 2018).