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'''Number of voices:''' 4vv&nbsp;&nbsp;'''Voicing:''' SATB<br>
'''Number of voices:''' 4vv&nbsp;&nbsp;'''Voicing:''' SATB<br>
'''Genre:''' [[:Category:Secular music|Secular]], [[:Category:Ode|s]] <br>
'''Genre:''' [[:Category:Secular music|Secular]], [[:Category:ode|odes]] <br>
{{Language|English}}
{{Language|English}}
'''Instruments: ''{{OrgAcc}}<br>
'''Instruments: '''{{OrgAcc}}<br>
'''Published: '''1889<br>
'''Published: '''1889<br>



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CPDL #18052: Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Sibelius 4
Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2008-9-12).   Score information: Letter, 20 pages, 89 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 89 KB, MIDI: 19 KB, Sib4: 58 KB. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.


General Information

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

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

Language: English
Instruments: Organ
Published: 1889

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Original text and translations

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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.