Georg Friedrich Händel
Ode for Saint Cecilia's Day
Georg Friedrich Händel
Ode for Saint Cecilia's Day
- Instrumentation Mixed Choir (SATB) and Orchestra
- Composer Georg Friedrich Händel
- Editor Donald Burrows
- Series Novello Handel Edition
- Edition Score
- Publisher Novello Publishing
- Order no. NOV720071-01
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Description:
Full score for ST or SAT soloists, SATB chorus and Orchestra.
> Ouverture
> Recitative - From harmony, from heav'nly harmony
> Chorus - From harmony, from heav'nly harmony
> Air (Soprano) - What passion cannot music raise and quell?
> Air (Tenor) and Chorus - The trumpet's loud clangour
> La Marche
> Air (Soprano) - The soft complaining flute
> Air (Alto) - The soft complaining flute
> Air (Tenor or Soprano 2) - Sharp violins proclaim
> Air (Soprano) - But oh! what art can teach?
> Air (Soprano) - Orpheus could lead the savage race
> Recitative (Soprano) - But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder high'r
> Soprano and Chorus - As from the pow'r of sacred lays
Instrumentation
> Flute
> 2 Oboes
> 2 Bassoon
> 2 Trumpets
> Timpani
> Strings
> Continuo (Harpsichord, Organ, and optional Lute) Includes performance instruction and extensive preface by the editor, Donald Burrows.
> Ouverture
> Recitative - From harmony, from heav'nly harmony
> Chorus - From harmony, from heav'nly harmony
> Air (Soprano) - What passion cannot music raise and quell?
> Air (Tenor) and Chorus - The trumpet's loud clangour
> La Marche
> Air (Soprano) - The soft complaining flute
> Air (Alto) - The soft complaining flute
> Air (Tenor or Soprano 2) - Sharp violins proclaim
> Air (Soprano) - But oh! what art can teach?
> Air (Soprano) - Orpheus could lead the savage race
> Recitative (Soprano) - But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder high'r
> Soprano and Chorus - As from the pow'r of sacred lays
Instrumentation
> Flute
> 2 Oboes
> 2 Bassoon
> 2 Trumpets
> Timpani
> Strings
> Continuo (Harpsichord, Organ, and optional Lute) Includes performance instruction and extensive preface by the editor, Donald Burrows.