Ouse (Daniel Belknap)

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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2016-04-16).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 77 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Two more stanzas from Watts' paraphrase included.

General Information

Title: Ouse
First Line: Let all the earth-born race
Composer: Daniel Belknap
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred   Meter: 66. 66. 88 (actually 66. 66. 44. 44)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: First published in The Harmonist's Companion, 1797, p. 20. Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, paraphrase of Psalm 148, in ten stanzas. Belknap used the fifth stanza of Watts' paraphrase in his composition.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 148.