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LEIGHTON (Leighton)

LEIGHTON (Leighton)

Composer: William Leighton (1614)
Published in 12 hymnals


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Composer: William Leighton

Sir William Leighton (/ˈleɪtən/; c. 1565–1622) was an Elizabethan composer and editor who published The Teares and Lamentatacions of a Sorrowfull Soule (1614) which comprised 55 pieces by 21 composers (among them John Bull, William Byrd, John Dowland and Martin Peerson), including eight by himself. There is a modern edition published by Stainer and Bell and a modern facsimile. Several radio broadcasts have been made but no commercial recording has been carried out yet. The book is historically important because it has parts for an instrumental accompaniment of broken consort and introduces the term "consort song". --en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leighton Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title: LEIGHTON (Leighton)
Composer: William Leighton (1614)
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Incipit: 12343 21233 23454
Key: G Major or modal
Copyright: Public Domain
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Timeline

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Media

The Cyber Hymnal #3919
Text: Lord, I Am Vile, Conceived in Sin
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)
The Cyber Hymnal #7091
Text: We Are a Garden Walled Around
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)
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Instances

Instances (1 - 4 of 4)
Audio

Small Church Music #5125

Small Church Music #5125
TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #3919

The Cyber Hymnal #3919
TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #7091

The Cyber Hymnal #7091
Page Scan

Trinity Psalter Hymnal #20A

Trinity Psalter Hymnal #20A
Include 8 pre-1979 instances
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