Hosanna to the highest, Z 187 - Purcell, Henry

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⌛ Period → Baroque ◈ Genre / Form → Sacred songs

♯ Key C minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → AB,TB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range G2 – A-4

¶ Language → English

Measures 65

Texture Homophonic

Parts 6

Instruments Basso continuo

Pages 4

CPDL # 56854

Editor Raymond Nagem

Posted 2020-01-31

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

MusicXML Part

F3 – D4

G2 – E-4

¶Lyrics / Text

Hosanna to the highest. Joy betide The heavenly bridegroom and his holy bride. Let heav'n above be filled with songs, Let earth triumph below; For ever silent be those tongues that can be silent now. You rocks and stones, I charge you all to break Your flinty silence if men cease to speak; You that possess the sacred art Or now or never show it, Plead not your Muse is out of heart: Here's that creates a poet. Be ravish'd, earth, to see this contract driv'n 'Twixt sinful men and reconcil'd heav'n. Dismount, you quire of angels, come, With men your joys divide; Heav'n never showed so sweet a bridegroom, Nor earth so fair a bride.