From Harmony (Henry Bird Collins)
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- (Posted 2024-07-22) CPDL #81378:
- Editor: Oliver Hayes (submitted 2024-07-22). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 216 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transcribed from Weekes & Co.s Series of Part Songs No. 45, 1896.
General Information
Title: From Harmony
Composer: Henry Bird Collins
Lyricist: John Dryden
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1896
Description: A setting of John Dryden's poem From Harmony, from Song for St. Cecilia's Day, written for A.H. Cross and the members of the King's Lynn Musical Society in 1896.
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Original text and translations
English text
From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony,
This Universal Frame began:
The tuneful voice was heard on high,
Arise, ye more than dead!
Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry,
In order to their stations leap,
And music's pow'r obey.
From Harmony to Harmony
Through all the compass of the notes it ran,
The diapason closing full in man.
As from the pow'r of sacred lays
The spheres began to move,
And sung the great Creator's praise
to all the blest above.
So when the last and dreadful hour,
This crumbling pageant shall devour.
The trumpet shall be heard, on high,
The dead shall live,
The living die,
And music shall untune the sky.