My former hopes are fled (Thomas Clark)

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  • (Posted 2015-06-04)  CPDL #35651:        (Sibelius 7)
Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2015-06-04).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 45 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: The order of parts in the source is Alto - Tenor - Air - Bass, with the Alto and Tenor parts given in the treble clef an octave above sounding pitch. Only the first verse of the text is given in the source: subsequent verses have here been added editorially.

General Information

Title: My former hopes are fled
Composer: Thomas Clark
Tune: Stockton
Lyricist: William Cowper

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 66. 86 (S.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1836 in The Congregational Harmonist, Book 4, No. 27, London, as tune 634 on p. 478
Description: This setting is attributed 'T. Clark' in The Congregational Harmonist, where it is marked with a crossed circle, a symbol used in that book to indicate 'originals' (i.e. tunes not previously published). Words by William Cowper, 1779, Hymn 8 of Book 3, entitled The Shining Light. Clark has amended the first line of Cowper's hymn from "My former hopes are dead."

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at My former hopes are dead.  

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