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Revision as of 22:50, 21 April 2013
General information
Here is a song, which doth belong is a text first recorded in the Hymn Tune Index in 1794, as the underlay of the tune 'West-Sudbury' by William Billings. Billings attributes the text as 'Words from Mr. John Peck', but only gives one Double Common Metre verse. Elisha West of Woodstock, Vermont similarly set the hymn to a Double Common Meter tune ('Solemn Song') in his collection The Musical Concert (Northampton: 1802).
A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors, compiled by Paul Himes and Jonathan Wilson (Greenfield, MA: published by Clark & Hunt, 1818) gives seven Common Metre verses of the text, as Hymn 123.
Settings by composers
- William Billings — Hatfield English STB
- William Billings — West-Sudbury English SATB
- William Walker — An Address for All English SATB
- Elisha West — Solemn Song English SATB
Text and translations
First verse as given in William Billings' The Continental Harmony (Boston: 1794)English text Here is a song, which doth belong, As given in A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors, ed. Himes & Wilson (Greenfield, MA: Clark & Hunt, 1818)English text I sing a song which doth belong |
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