Premium George Frideric Handel: Ode For Saint Cecilia’s Day (Full Score)

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Full score for ST or SAT soloists, SATB chorus and Orchestra.

1. Ouverture
2. Recitative – From harmony, from heav’nly harmony
3. Chorus – From harmony, from heav’nly harmony
4. Air (Soprano) – What passion cannot music raise and quell?
5. Air (Tenor) and Chorus – The trumpet’s loud clangour
6. La Marche
7. Air (Soprano) – The soft complaining flute
8. Air (Alto) – The soft complaining flute
9. Air (Tenor or Soprano 2) – Sharp violins proclaim
10. Air (Soprano) – But oh! what art can teach?
11. Air (Soprano) – Orpheus could lead the savage race
12. Recitative (Soprano) – But bright Cecilia rais’d the wonder high’r
13. 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.

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Ode for Saint Cecilia’s Day
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