Compositions with Isaac Watts as librettist
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Creators | Key | Opus | Composed | Instrumentation | Period/style | Type | Listen | Code |
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| Peace on Earth (A New Christmas Ode) | Thomas Jarman, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
F major | 4 voices and organ mixed chorus and organ |
Classical | Odes, Anthems |  |
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| A Lyrick Poem by Dr. Watts | Barnabas Gunn, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
voice, mixed chorus and continuo soprano, alto, bass and continuo |
Baroque | Sacred cantatas, Hymns | |
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| Hark! From the Tombs, &c. and Beneath the Honors, &c. adapted from Dr. Watts, and set to Music, by Samuel Holyoke, A.M. performed at Newburyport, 2d January, 1800; the day on which the Citizens unitedly expressed their unbounded veneration for the memory of our beloved Washington. (2 Anthems in memory of Washington) | Samuel Holyoke, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
mixed chorus | Classical | Anthems, Funeral music | |
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| Joy to the World (Antioch) | Lowell Mason, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
D major | mixed chorus | Romantic | Carols, Psalms | |
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| From All That Dwell Below the Skies (Sacred Semi-chorus) | Samuel Arnold, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
C major | mixed chorus | Classical | Sacred choruses | |
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| The American Singing Book (The American Singing Book; or a new and easy guide to the art of Psalmody. Designed for the use of Singing-Schools in America. Containing in a plain and familiar Manner, the Rules of Psalmody, together with a number of Psalm-Tunes, &c. Composed by Daniel Read, Philo-Musico.) | Daniel Read, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
mixed chorus 4 voices |
Classical | Psalms, Hymns, Anthems | |
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| Church Music to accompany Watts's and New Select Hymns | Various, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
2 voices voices |
Classical | Hymns, Psalms | |
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| Jehovah's Throne | Joseph Waddell Clokey, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
C major | unison chorus and organ | Early 20th century | Psalms | |
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| Variants for 'St. Anne' | Norman Coke-Jephcott, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
mixed chorus and organ mixed chorus, 3 trumpets, timpani and organ |
Early 20th century | Sacred choruses | |
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| How Beauteous are Their Feet (Short anthem for Saints' days) | Charles Villiers Stanford, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
G major | soprano, alto, tenor, bass and organ mixed chorus and organ |
Romantic | Anthems | |
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| Come, we that Love the Lord | Edward Shippen Barnes, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
female chorus and piano female chorus and organ |
Early 20th century | Hymns | |
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| The Lord My Shepherd Is | Edward Shippen Barnes, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
soprano, alto and piano soprano, alto and organ female chorus and piano female chorus and organ |
Early 20th century | Anthems | |
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| Southern Harmony | Jacob Bancks, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
2014 | voice and piano | Modern | Songs | |
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| Sacred Songs, Ancient and Modern (Sacred songs, ancient and modern : a complete collection of sacred vocal music by celebrated composers, suitable for home use) | John Hiles, composer Charlotte Alington Barnard, librettist Joseph Edwards Carpenter, librettist Thomas Moore, librettist John Henry Newman, librettist Isaac Watts, librettist Thomas Grinfield, librettist Felicia Hemans, librettist Henry Kirke White, librettist Ben Jonson, librettist Catherine Winkworth, librettist Adelaide A. Procter, librettist |
voice and piano | Romantic | Sacred songs | |
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| When I Can Read My Title Clear | John Rogers Thomas, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
A flat major | soprano, tenor, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Sacred songs | |
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| Alas! And Did My Saviour Bleed | Benjamin Shute, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
2017 | mixed chorus | Modern | Sacred choruses | |
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| Association Hymn Book (For Use in Meetings for Men) | YMCA, composer Sarah Flower Adams, librettist Cecil Frances Alexander, librettist Saint Anatolius, librettist Harriet Auber, librettist Henry Williams Baker, librettist John Bakewell, librettist Sabine Baring-Gould, librettist Bernard Barton, librettist Benjamin Beddome, librettist Louis FitzGerald Benson, librettist Edward Henry Bickersteth, librettist Philip Paul Bliss, librettist John Ernest Bode, librettist Horatius Bonar, librettist Jane Laurie Borthwick, librettist John Bowring, librettist Matthew Bridges, librettist William Cullen Bryant, librettist Phoebe Cary, librettist John Cawood, librettist John Cennink, librettist Alexander Clark, librettist Elizabeth Cecelia Clephane, librettist Samuel O'Malley Cluff, librettist Bernard de Cluny, librettist Elizabeth Harris Codner, librettist George Cooper, librettist Anne Ross Cousin, librettist William Cowper, librettist Arthur Cleveland Coxe, librettist George Croly, librettist Fanny Crosby, librettist William Chatterton Dix, librettist William Orcutt Cushing, librettist Edward Arthur Dayman, librettist George Washington Doane, librettist Philip Doddridge, librettist Sarah Doudney, librettist Henry Downton, librettist George Duffield Jr., librettist James Edmeston, librettist John Ellerton, librettist Charlotte Elliott, librettist Emily Elizabeth Steele Elliott, librettist Frederick William Faber, librettist Reverend John Fawcett, librettist Sarh Laurie Borthwick Findlater, librettist Joseph Henry Gilmore, librettist Sir Robert Grant, librettist Joseph Grigg, librettist Eliza Hamilton, librettist Arabella Katherine Hankey, librettist Lewis Hartsough, librettist Thomas Hastings, librettist Frances Ridley Havergal, librettist Hugh Reginald Haweis, librettist Annie Sherwood Hawks, librettist George Heath, librettist Reginald Heber, librettist Edward Hopper, librettist William Walsham How, librettist Ralph Erskine Hudson, librettist William Hurn, librettist John Keble, librettist George Keith, librettist Thomas Kelly, librettist Thomas Ken, librettist Mary Artemisia Lathbury, librettist Samuel Longfellow, librettist William Dunn Longstaff, librettist Martin Luther, librettist Henry Francis Lyte, librettist Norman Macleod, librettist Daniel March, librettist Samuel Medley, librettist John Samuel Bewley Monsell, librettist James Montgomery, librettist Thomas Moore, librettist Edward Mote, librettist Gerard Moultrie, librettist John Mason Neale, librettist John Henry Newman, librettist John Newton, librettist James Nicholson, librettist Horatio Richmond Palmer, librettist Ray Palmer, librettist William Williams Pantycelyn, librettist Edward Perronet, librettist Sylvanus Dryden Phelps, librettist Folliott Sandford Pierpoint, librettist Thomas Joseph Potter, librettist Elizabeth Prentiss, librettist Rossiter Worthington Raymond, librettist Andrew Reed, librettist John Henry Sammis, librettist Ira David Sankey, librettist Joseph Medlicott Scriven, librettist Robert Seagrave, librettist Edmund Hamilton Sears, librettist William Fiske Sherwin, librettist William True Sleeper, librettist Samuel Francis Smith, librettist Anne Steele, librettist Samuel Stennett, librettist Samuel John Stone, librettist Augustus Toplady, librettist Lawrence Tuttiett, librettist John Hart Stockton, librettist Martha Matilda Stockton, librettist Samuel John Stone, librettist Hugh Stowell, librettist Alfred Tennyson, librettist Godfrey Thring, librettist Dorothy Ann Thrupp, librettist Henry Twells, librettist William Walford, librettist Annie Louisa Walker, librettist James Cowden Wallace, librettist George Augustus Warburton, librettist Henry Ware, librettist Anna Bartlett Warner, librettist Isaac Watts, librettist Marcus Morris Wells, librettist Charles Wesley Sr., librettist Henry Kirke White, librettist Catherine Winkworth, librettist Anna Laetitia Waring, librettist Frederick Whitfield, librettist William Whiting, librettist John Greenleaf Whittier, librettist Daniel Webster Whittle, librettist Helen Maria Williams, librettist William Ellsworth Witter, librettist Christopher Wordsworth, librettist John Henry Yates, librettist |
male chorus | Early 20th century | Hymns | |
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| O bless the Lord, My Soul (Anthem) | John Knowles Paine, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
A major | male chorus and organ | Romantic | Anthems | |
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| We're Marching to Zion (Come, We That Love the Lord) | Robert Lowry, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
1707 | voices | Romantic | Hymns | |
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| Joy to the World (Joy to the World! A Christmas anthem for mixed chorus with a soprano solo and piano accompaniment) | Gaston Borch, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
Op.177 | soprano, mixed chorus and piano | Early 20th century | Anthems | |
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| 6 Moral Songs or Hymns (A Collection of Moral Songs or Hymns for a Voice, Harpsichord, and Guittar) | William Yates, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
voice and harpsichord voice and cittern 2 flutes |
Classical | Songs, Secular hymns | |
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| Virginia (Thy words the raging winds control) | Oliver Brownson, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
B minor | 4 voices mixed chorus |
Modern | Hymns | |
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| A Selection of 100 Tunes to Dr. Watts's Psalms and Hymns (Dr. Watts's Psalms & Hymns. A Selection of Sacred Music, Consisting of one hundred of the most Favorite Tunes as Sung by all Dissenting Congregations, Adapted to Dr. Watts's Psalms & Hymns, Revised with New Basses, & Expressly Arranged for the Voice & Piano Forte by T. Costellow, Organist of Bedford Chapel) | Thomas Costellow, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
voices and piano voices and organ mixed chorus and organ mixed chorus and piano |
Classical | Hymns, Psalms | |
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| Watts' Divine and Moral Songs (Dr. Watts' Divine & Moral Songs, Set to Music in a Familiar Style as Solos, Duets & Trios, with an Accompaniment for the Piano Forte) | Benjamin Jacob, composer Isaac Watts, librettist |
voice and piano 2 voices and piano 3 voices and piano |
Classical | Sacred songs | |
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