O God of Gods - Hooper, Edmund

"This is a verse anthem in celebration of the Monarch. It is one of the grandest and most elaborate verse anthems composed by Hooper. It is likely it was intended to be performed on the ‘King’s Day’. This traditionally coincided with Epiphany, but this was later moved to the separate celebration of the Accession of the Monarch. The surviving sources for this work include a substantially modified version of a text setting originally written for James I. Most surviving early sources of this anthem date from the time of Charles I, and are texted to him."

⌛ Epoche → Renaissance ◈ Genre / Form → Anthems

♯ Tonart B- major

⁄ Taktart 2/1

♬ Besetzung → SSAATTBB

◆ Difficulty

Fortgeschritten

↕ Tonumfang A – c'''

¶ Sprache → Englisch

Takte 137

Textur mixed texture

Stimmen 18

Instrumente SSAATTBB

Seiten 24

CPDL Nr. 72474

Bearbeiter Hugo Janacek

Veröffentlicht 2023-01-31

Lizenz Personal

♫Tonumfänge

MusicXML Part

B-2 – c'''

f' – f''

Bass

B-2 – d'

Treble

f – f'

Tenor

f – g'

Schlagwörter

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Early text (ca.1603): O God of Gods, O King of Kings, Eternal Father of all things, in heav'n and earth and everywhere, by whom all Kings their sceptres bear, Great God of Charles, our blessed King, Great King of peace, Great King of peace, Heav'n's darling, England's happiness, Heav'n's darling, England's happiness, To him we pray thee in this song, that he may live and prosper long. And we beseech thee, mighty Lord, to us such favour to afford, that his triumphant festival, his holy day Imperial, to his Inaug'ring consecrated, may be so often celebrated, that finally it be not done till the great coming of thy Son, And that his health, his joy, his peace, may as his reign and years increase. To the Almighty Trinity, three persons in one Deity, all glorious in heav'n, in heav'n, all praise, all thanks, all laud be giv'n, With organs, trumpets, and with flutes, with cornets, viols, and with lutes, with harps, with cymbals, and with shawms, with sacred anthems, hymns, and psalms, with notes of angels and of men, sing Alleluia, Amen.

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