Descend, ye Nine! - Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings

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⌛ Period → Romantic ◈ Genre → Partsongs

♯ Key D minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range C1 – B6

♩ Tempo adagietto (68)

◷ Duration ~10 min

¶ Language → English

Measures 171

Texture mixed texture

Parts 6

Instruments Organ

Pages 20

CPDL # 18052

Editor John Henry Fowler

Posted 2008-09-12

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

C4 – A5

A3 – G5

D3 – G4

F2 – E-4

Organ

C1 – A4

¶Lyrics / 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.