A Hymn for St Cecilia - Charles H. Giffen

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"This is a concert-anthem setting of the poem 'A Hymn for St Cecilia' by Ursula Vaughan Williams, for mixed choir and chamber orchestra. It is dedicated to the Choral Public Domain Library, as CPDL approaches the 20th anniversary of its founding (in December 1998) by Rafael Ornes, with much appreciation by the composer for all that CPDL has done for choirs and choruses, making thousands upon thousands of choral scores available for free download. The music itself is an elaboration of the composer's hymn on the same text ({{NoComp|Sing for the morning's joy, Cecilia, sing|Charles H. Giffen"

⌛ Period → Contemporary ◈ Genre → Hymn

♯ Key F# major

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Advanced

↕ Range D-1 – B-6

¶ Language → English

Measures 165

Texture mixed texture

Parts 18

Instruments SATB, Flute, English Horn, Bassoon, Horn in F, Trombone, Harp, Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Violoncello, Double Bass

Pages 34

CPDL # 51371

Editor Charles H. Giffen

Posted 2018-09-26

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

♫Pitch Ranges

Flute

C-4 – B-5

English Horn

C4 – D-6

Bassoon

D-2 – F4

Horn in F

A-3 – A5

Trombone

F2 – D-4

Harp

D-1 – C-5

MusicXML Part

D-6 – D-6

Soprano

C-4 – B-5

Alto

G-3 – D-5

Tenor

C-3 – A-4

Bass

D-2 – D-4

Violin I

B-3 – D-6

Violin II

A-3 – D-5

Viola

D-3 – G-4

Violoncello

D-2 – G-3

Double Bass

F2 – C-4

¶Lyrics / Text

Sing for the morning’s joy, Cecilia, sing, in words of youth and phrases of the spring.     Walk the bright colonnades by fountains spray     and sing as sunlight fills the waking day. Till angels, voyaging in upper air,     pause on a wing, and gather the clear sound     into celestial joy, wound and unwound, a silver chain or golden as your hair. Sing for your loves of heaven and of earth, in words of music, and each word a truth,     marriage of heart and longings that aspire,     a bond of roses and a ring of fire. Your summertime grows short and fades away,     terror must gather to a martyr’s death,     but never tremble, the last indrawn breath remembers music as an echo may. Through the cold aftermath of centuries Cecilia’s music dances in the skies,     lend us a fragment of the immortal air     where with your choiring angels we may share. A word to light us through time-fettered night,     water of life, a rose of paradise;     so from the earth another song shall rise to meet your own in heaven's long delight. — by Ursula Vaughan Williams (1911-2007) Copyright © 1961 by The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust. Used by permission.