Modern musick - Billings, William

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⌛ Period → Classical ◈ Genre → Anthems

♯ Key E major

⁄ Time Signature 2/2

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range G2 – E5

¶ Language → English

Measures 94

Texture mixed texture

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 7

CPDL # 41243

Editor Aaron Giles

Posted 2016-09-26

License Public Domain

♫Pitch Ranges

Instrument 1

E4 – E5

Instrument 2

D4 – B4

Instrument 3

E3 – G4

Instrument 4

G2 – B3

¶Lyrics / Text

:We are met for a concert of modern invention; :To tickle the ear is our present intention. :The audience are seated expecting to be treated :With a piece of the best, with a piece of the best. :And since we all agree to set the tune on E, :The author's darling key he prefers to the rest [Next four lines simultaneously] :Let the bass take the lead and firmly proceed till the parts are agreed to fuge away. To :Let the tenor succeed and follow the lead till the parts are agreed to :Let the counter inspire the rest of the choir inflam'd with desire to :Let the treble in the rear no longer forbear, but expressly declare for a :fuge away. :Then change to brisker time and up the ladder climb, :And down again; then mount the second time :And end the strain :Then change the key to pensive tones :And slow in treble time the notes exceeding low :Keep down a while then rise by slow degrees; :The Process will surely not fail to please. :Thro' common and treble we jointly have run :We'll give you their essence compounded in one :Altho' we are strongly attached to the rest :Six-four is the movement that pleases us best, that pleases us best. :Six-four is the movement that pleases us best. :And now we address you as friends to the cause; :Performers are modest and write their own laws. :Altho' we are sanguine and clap at the bars, :'Tis part of the hearers to clap their applause, to clap their applause. :'Tis part of the hearers to clap their applause.