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==General Information==
==General Information==
'''Title:''' ''Sudbury (1770)''<br>
'''Title:''' ''Sudbury (1770)''<br>
'''First Line:'' Blest be the everlasting God<br>
{{Composer|William Billings}}
{{Composer|William Billings}}
{{Lyricist|Isaac Watts}}
{{Lyricist|Isaac Watts}}


{{Voicing|4|SATB}}<br>
{{Voicing|4|SATB}}<br>
{{Genre|Sacred|Hymns}}
{{Genre|Sacred|Hymns}} &nbsp; {{meter|86. 86 (C.M.)}}
{{Language|English}}
{{Language|English}}
{{Instruments|A cappella}}
{{Instruments|A cappella}}
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==Original text and translations==
==Original text and translations==
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{{LinkText|Blest be the everlasting God}}


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[[Category:Classical music]]

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Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-05-02).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 59 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). All five stanzas included from Watts' hymn.

General Information

Title: Sudbury (1770)
'First Line: Blest be the everlasting God
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SacredHymn   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1770

Description: First published in The New-England Psalm-Singer, 1770, p. 9. Words inferred to be Isaac Watts, 1709, Hymn 26 of Book 1 (see Kroeger 1981). Very different from Sudbury (1794).

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Blest be the everlasting God.