Descend, ye Nine! (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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CPDL #16311:   Sibelius 4

Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2008-3-8).   Score information: A4, 8 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.

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

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

Language: English
Organ Published: 1889

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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.