Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695)
Hail! Bright Cecilia
Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
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Details
- For
- Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
- Product Type
- Score (Urtext edition)
- Author / Composer
- Henry Purcell
- Editor
- Julia Rosemeyer
- Product number
- 1677424
- Difficulty Level
- 4
Description
Scoring: Soli SAATBB, Coro SATB (and SSAATB), 2 Bfl, 2 Ob, 2 Tr, Timp, 2 Vl, Va, Bc
“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...