by William Billings (1746 - 1800)
Great art thou
Language: English
Great art thou, O music and with thee there is no competitor... Thou art like pure love... Therefore thou art like Heaven and Heaven is like Thee.
Text Authorship:
- by William Billings (1746 - 1800) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Leslie R. Bassett (b. 1923), "Great art thou", published c1966, from To Music, no. 3. [text not verified]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-07-02
Line count: 5
Word count: 27