For SSA Voices and Piano
Words by Isaac Watts
Music by Philip Wilby
This is Philip Wilby's setting of Isaac Watts' famous hymn. The first two verses are in unison over a gentle ryhthmic ostinato in the piano. Verse 3 goes into 4-part harmony and has a little more movement and a more developed piano part. Verse 4 returns to the opening tempo. The original melody in the alto and bass and has a counter-melodies in the soprano and tenor, after which the piece is brought to a quiet close by a solo soprano with the piano ostinato continuing underneath.