SKU: CA.1025000
ISBN 9790007251826. Key: D major. English.
??Hail! bright Cecilia, hail to thee. Great patroness of us and harmony!? ?? this exclamation opens the final chorus of Henry Purcell??s eponymous Ode to St. Cecilia from 1692. A paean to the power of music, the work is one of the undoubted masterpieces of English choral odes of that time. A resolution of the Musical Society of London in 1683 launched the great tradition of annual celebrations for St. Cecilia??s Day (November 22), featuring a church service followed by performances of specially composed music. Over the years, Purcell wrote several odes for the occasion, of which this example from 1692 is one of the most popular. Four decades later, Handel would also contribute to the celebrations with his Alexander??s Feast, HWV 75 (Carus 55.075), and his Ode for St. Cecilia??s Day, HWV 76 (Carus 55.076).Purcell??s magnificent music, which features a huge range of tonal color and form, offers delightful parts for a variety of solo, ensemble, and choral settings. With its richly expressive palette, the Ode to St. Cecilia is an extremely rewarding work by the ??Orpheus Britannicus?, as Purcell was admiringly called by contemporaries.- Festive, rousing ode to music- Highlight of the choral ode genre in the 17th century
SKU: HL.14011325
ISBN 9780853608189. 8.5x11.0x0.17 inches.
Edited for Contralto or Tenor Voice by Gerald Cooper.
SKU: HL.14011324
ISBN 9780853603399. 8.5x11.75x0.175 inches.
Edited by Gerald Cooper.
SKU: M7.BH-7300068
ISBN 9790060095948. UPC: 073999238457. English.
The award winning wind and brass tutor series. Learn As You Play provides everything you need from the first lesson up to grade three. A well structured course of exercises, studies and pieces ensures a good grounding in technique and musicianship. Also available in Dutch, French, German and Spanish language editions.
SKU: ST.PE1
ISBN 9790220222184.
In addition to Celestial music and Great Parent, hail!, formerly in Miscellaneous Odes and Cantatas which is now replaced by PE27 Symphony Songs, PE1 contains The Yorkshire Feast Song, Of old, when heroes thought it base, which was the inaugural volume of the series, published in 1878 and edited by a founder-member of the society, W. H. Cummings. The first English score with full Baroque instrumentation, including trumpets and oboes, it is a consummate display of orchestral mastery, and represents the composer's first response to Giovanni Battista Draghi's 1687 setting of Dryden's Cecilian Ode From Harmony. CONTENTS Celestial music did the gods inspire Great parent, hail! Of old, when heroes thought it base (The Yorkshire Feast Song).
