Descend, ye Nine! (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• CPDL #18052: Sibelius 4

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-09-12).   Score information: Letter, 20 pages, 197 kbytes       Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 197 KB, MIDI: 45 KB, Sib4: 80 KB.

General Information

Title: Descend, ye Nine!
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Alexander Pope

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Aria

Language: English
Instruments: Organ
Published: 1889

Description: No. 2 from Ode on St. Cecilia's Day (1889)

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Original text and translations

English text

Descend, ye Nine! descend and sing;

The breathing instruments inspire,

Wake into voice each silent string,

And sweep the sounding lyre;

In a sadly-pleasing strain

Let the warbling lute complain:

Let the loud trumpet sound,

Till the roofs all around

The shrill echoes rebound:

While in more lengthen'd notes and slow,

The deep, majestic, solemn organs blow.

Hark! the numbers soft and clear,

Gently steal upon the ear;

Now louder, and yet louder rise,

And fill with spreading sounds the skies;

Exulting in triumph now swell the bold notes,

In broken air, trembling, the wild music floats;

Till, by degrees, remote and small,

The strains decay,

And melt away,

In a dying, dying fall.