Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 76 (Handel, George Frideric)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 12 movements
Composition Year 1739 (15-24 September)
Genre Categories Odes; For 2 voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the tenor voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; English language; For 2 trumpets, timpani, organ (arr); Scores featuring the trombone (arr); Scores featuring the timpani (arr); Scores featuring the organ (arr); For 4 players (arr); For organ (arr); For 1 player (arr)

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Performances

Recordings

 1. Overture: Minuet (EU)
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⇒ 7 more: 2. From Harmony: When Nature; From Harmony • 3. What Passion Cannot Music Raise • 4. The Trumpet's Loud Clangour; March • 5. The Soft Complaining Flute • 6. Sharp Violins Proclaim • 7. But Oh! What Art Can Teach • 8. Orpheus Could Lead The Savage Race / 9. But Bright Cecilia / 10. As From The Power Of Sacred Lays

 2. From Harmony: When Nature; From Harmony (EU)
#725607 - 10.26MB - 7:59 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/67/V - 68×⇩ - MP3 - Lucas-coelho

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 3. What Passion Cannot Music Raise (EU)
#725608 - 12.92MB - 9:36 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/67/V - 68×⇩ - MP3 - Lucas-coelho

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 4. The Trumpet's Loud Clangour; March (EU)
#725609 - 9.26MB - 6:58 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/67/V - 61×⇩ - MP3 - Lucas-coelho

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 5. The Soft Complaining Flute (EU)
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 6. Sharp Violins Proclaim (EU)
#725611 - 7.52MB - 5:44 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/67/V - 30×⇩ - MP3 - Lucas-coelho

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 7. But Oh! What Art Can Teach (EU)
#725612 - 7.38MB - 5:22 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/67/V - 38×⇩ - MP3 - Lucas-coelho

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Performer Pages Adele Addison (soprano)
John McCollum (tenor)
John Wummer (flute)
Laszlo Varga (cello)
Bruce Prince-Joseph (organ)
Rutgers University Choir (chorus)
F. Austin Walter (chorus director)
New York Philharmonic (orchestra)
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
Publisher Info. Columbia Masterworks, 1960. ML 5606.
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March (No.6)

For 2 Trumpets, Timpani and Organ (Rondeau)

 Synthesized Performance
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Sheet Music

Full Scores

Complete

 Complete Score
#18836 - 20.61MB, 112 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 8512×⇩ - Ivdruiz

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Editor Friedrich Chrysander (1826-1901)
Publisher. Info. Georg Friedrich Händels Werke. Band 23
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 Overture
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⇒ 11 more: Aria: From Harmony • Chorus: From Harmony • Aria: What passion • Aria and Chorus: The Trumpet's loud • March • Aria: The soft complaining • Aria: Sharp Violins proclaim • Aria: But oh! What art can teach • Aria: Orpheus could lead • Recitative: But bright Cecilia • Chorus: As from the pow'r

 Aria: From Harmony
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 Chorus: From Harmony
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 Aria: What passion
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 Aria and Chorus: The Trumpet's loud
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 March
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 Aria: The soft complaining
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 Aria: Sharp Violins proclaim
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 Aria: But oh! What art can teach
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 Aria: Orpheus could lead
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 Recitative: But bright Cecilia
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 Chorus: As from the pow'r
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Selections

 Arias only
#279968 - 5.91MB, 26 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 735×⇩ - Irishmaestro

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Editor First edition
Publisher. Info. London: John Walsh, n.d.[1739?].
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Misc. Notes Published as "The Songs in the Ode wrote by Mr Dryden for St Cecilia's Day, set by Mr Handel"
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 In Praise of Harmony (appendix) - Cover, Title Page, Introduction
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 In Praise of Harmony (appendix) - Complete Score
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Editor Karl Schleifer (1906-?)
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 The Soft Complaining Flute
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Parts

 Flute
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 Trumpet 1/2 (D)
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 Timpani
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 Violins I
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 Violins II
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 Violas
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 Cellos
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 In Praise of Harmony (appendix) - Complete Parts
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

March (No.6)

For 2 Trumpets, Timpani and Organ (Rondeau)

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 Engraving files (Finale & XML)
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As From the Power (No.12)

For Organ (Nixon)

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General Information

Work Title Ode for St. Cecilia's Day
Alternative. Title
Name Translations Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day; Oda za praznik svete Cecilije; Ode per il giorno di Santa Cecilia; 聖セシリアの日のための頌歌
Name Aliases Cäcilienode; K. 592; Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76
Authorities WorldCat; Wikipedia; VIAF: 182230890; LCCN: n88611383; GND: 300064578; BNF: 13913104q
Composer Handel, George Frideric
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. HWV 76
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. IGH 357
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 12 movements:
1. Overture
2. Recitative (tenor): From Harmony; When Nature
3. Chorus: From Harmony, from Heavenly Harmony
4. Aria: What Passion cannot Music Raise and Quell
5. Aria (tenor) and Chorus: The Trumpet's Loud Clangour
6. March
7. Aria (soprano): The Soft Complaining Flute
8. Aria (tenor): Sharp Violins Proclaim their Jealous Pangs
9. Aria (soprano): But Oh! What Art can Teach
10. Aria (soprano): Orpheus could Lead the Savage Race
11. Recitative (soprano): But Bright Cecilia Raised the Wonder Higher
12. Solo (soprano) and Chorus: As from the Power of Sacred Lays
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1739 (15-24 September)
First Performance. 1739-11-22 in London, Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields
Librettist Based on a new setting of an earlier poem ("A Song for St. Cecilia's Day") by John Dryden (1631-1700); for St. Cecilia's Day 1687 (22 November).
Language English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Baroque
Piece Style Baroque
Instrumentation soprano, tenor; mixed chorus (SATB), orchestra
InstrDetail flute, 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 trumpets, timpani, lute, strings, continuo
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