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| Psalm | Link_to_PDF | Key | Incipit |
| Psalm 019 | Psalm_019_Chester.pdf | F_Major | Sun, moon, and stars convey
(L.M.) (Isaac Watts, 1719) |
| Psalm 019 | Psalm_019_Creation.pdf | A_Major | The spacious firmament on high
(LMD: Joseph Addison 1712; setting: Franz Josef Haydn 1798 |
| Psalm 019 | Psalm_019_Federal_Street.pdf | Ab_Major | I read my duty in thy word
(LM: Isaac Watts; loosely associated with Ps 19) |
| Psalm 019 | Psalm_019_Haddam.pdf | C_MAJOR | Jehovah's perfect law restores the soul again
(HM, United Presbyterian Hymnal 1912; setting by Lowell Mason 1822) |
| Psalm 019 | Psalm_019_Heart_Ever.pdf | C_Major | The heavens declare Thy glory, The firmament Thy power
(7-8 7-6 D; Thomas Birks 1874; setting: J.S. Bach BWV 68 1725) |
| Psalm 022 | Psalm_022_Hunnys_g.pdf | g_minor | Why will my Father hide His face, When foes stand threat'ning round?
(CM: Isaac Watts, 1719; setting "Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soul" (1585) |
| Psalm 022 | Old_022nd | d_major | Why will my Father hide His face, When foes stand threat'ning round?
(CMD: Isaac Watts, 1719; setting "Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soul" (1585) |
| Psalm 023 | Psalm_023_Crimond_melody.pdf | F_Major | The Lord's my Shepherd I'll not want
(CM: Scottish Psalter 1650; setting: Jessie Seymour Irvine (1836-1887) |
| Psalm 023 | Resignation | F_Major | My Shepherd will supply my need; Jehovah is his name;
(CM: Isaac Watts (1719); this melody is used in Southern Harmony) |
| Psalm 025 | Old_025th.pdf | g_major | Where shall the man be found That fears t'offend his God, That loves the gospel's joyful sound, And trembles at the rod? (SMD: Isaac Watts, 1719; Psalmes (1558) |
| Psalm 034 | 034th.pdf | c_major | Through all the changing scenes of life, In trouble and in joy, The praises of my God shall still My heart and tongue employ. Tate and Brady (1696); Joseph Stephenson |
| Psalm 044 | Old_044th.pdf | a_major | (two pages) Lord, we have heard thy works of old, Thy works of power and grace, When to our ears our fathers told The wonders of their days. (CMD: Isaac Watts, 1719; Psalmes (1558) |
| Psalm 044 | Old_044dg.pdf | a_major | (one page: dragon stanza only) Tho' dragons all around us roar With their destructive breath, And thine own hand has bruis'd us sore Hard by the gates of death. (CMD: Isaac Watts, 1719; Psalmes (1558) |
| Psalm 050 | Old_050th | g_dorian | (Isaac Watts; 4 voices; 2-page PDF file) The God of glory sends his summons forth, Calls the south nations, and awakes the north; |
| Psalm 050 | Old_050th tenor | g_dorian | (Isaac Watts; melody only; 1-page PDF file) |
| Psalm 068 |
(not yet set in shapes) Psalm 068:31 "Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God" Embedded in a poem by Dr.John Rippon celebrating the abolition of slavery act of 1807, with hymn tune by William Tansur | ||
| Psalm 077 | Psalm_077_St_Ni_01.pdf Psalm_077_St_Ni_02.pdf | e_minor | To God I cried with mournful voice, I sought His gracious ear, (CM: Isaac Watts 1719; setting: Maurice Greene 1696-1755) 10 stanzas in two PDF files (1-5; 6-10). |
| Psalm 077 | Psalm_077_Leander_235.pdf | a_minor | (Just "Passover" stanzas 2, 3, and 4) Long did the house of Joseph lie With Egypt's yoke oppressed; (CMD: Isaac Watts 1719; setting: "Leander" from Tennessee Harmony (1818)) 10 stanzas in two PDF files (1-5; 6-10). |
| Psalm 077 | Psalm_077_Leander_all.pdf | a_minor | (all 5 stanzas) How awful is Thy chastening rod! May Thy own children say The great, the wise, the dreadful God! How holy is His way! (CMD: Isaac Watts 1719; setting: "Leander" from Tennessee Harmony (1818)) 10 stanzas in two PDF files (1-5; 6-10). |
| Psalm 081 | Old_081st | F_Major | Sternhold and Hopkins (1562)
Blow as it were in the new moon, with trumpets of the best
Can be used as a Rosh Hodesh song. |
| Psalm 97 | Old_097th.pdf | D_major | 3 stanzas from Brady and Tate (1696).
Jehovah reigns, let all the earth PDF file with 5 stanzas (including the 2 anti-pagan stanzas). |
| Psalm 100 | Old_100th.pdf | A_major | The Sacred Harp version, but with all 4 stanzas of the loud anthems that we should sing.
To Him address, in joyful songs, The difference between a tempered piano and biological voices, simply explained using Old Hundredth (PDF file). |
| Psalm 102 | A_minor | Isaac Watts (1719). No. 44 in the Shenandoah Harmony (tune: Berne).
Hear me O Lord, nor hide thy face, | |
| Psalm 113 | Old_113th.pdf | E_major | Isaac Watts (1719).
Ye that delight to serve the Lord, |
| Psalm 119 | future_link | e_minor | Upward I lift mine eyes From God is all my aid
(HM: Isaac Watts 1719; setting: William Doane (1832-1925) |
| Psalm 121 | Psalm_121_Avalon_C.pdf | C_Major (G Mixolydian) | Upward I lift mine eyes From God is all my aid, The God that built the skies, And earth and nature made. (HM: Isaac Watts 1719; setting: William Doane (1832-1925) |
| Psalm 121 | Psalm_121_Sandon_E.pdf | E_Major | Unto the hills around do I lift up My longing eyes
(10-4 10-4 10-10) John D. Campbell (1877); setting: Charles H. Purday (1857) |
| Psalm 121 | E_Major | Hast thou not given thy word To save my soul from death?
(H.M.) Isaac Watts (1719). In Shenandoah Harmony, using a tune originally composed for Psalm 136: Deolph (1778). | |
| Psalm 124 | Psalm_124_Old_124th.pdf | F_Major | Now Israel may say, and that in truth, If that the Lord had not our right maintained
(10-10-10-10-10: Presbyterian Psalter 1912; setting: Genevan Psalter 1551) |
| Psalm 139 | Psalm_139_Maori.pdf | F_Major | Maori melody
Verses 23-24: Search me O God, and know my thoughts today Try me, O Savior, know my thoughts I pray. See if there be some wicked way in me; J. Edwin Orr, 1936.
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| Psalm 145 | Psalm_145_Watts_Rockingham.pdf | Eb_Major | My God, my King, Thy various praise Shall fill the remnant of my days
(LM: Isaac Watts 1719; setting Karl P.E. Bach arr. (1790) |
| Psalm 148 | Psalm_148_Darwalls.pdf | D_Major | Ye boundless realms of joy, Exalt your Maker's frame,
Stanzas 6 & 7: Praise him, ye dreadful whales, And fish, that through the sea Glide swift with glitt'ring scales.
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Contact: David Olson (310) 410-9033 for more details.
Sacred Harp Singing in Culver City
Other singings in Los Angeles area
More information on Shape Note Singing in general