Ode For Saint Cecilia's Day (Full Score)

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 thewonder 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.