A Song for St Cecilia's Day (Hayes, William)

Incipit Strike, strike the viol, touch the lute
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 1 song
Composition Year Before 1742
Genre Categories Songs; For voice, flute, strings, continuo; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the flute; Scores featuring string ensemble; Scores with basso continuo; For voices with strings; English language

Sheet Music

Scores

 Complete Score
#40532 - 1.78MB, 8 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 1144×⇩ - Simon Heighes

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Simon Heighes (2009/10/4)

 Complete Score
#338022 - 1.95MB, 6 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 208×⇩ - Fynnjamin

PDF scanned by F-Pn
Fynnjamin (2014/8/7)

Engraver Mich. Beesly
Publisher. Info. Vocal and Instrumental Musick, Part II
Oxford: William Hayes, 1742.
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
Misc. Notes #40532 - High Quality Scan
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General Information

Work Title A Song for St Cecilia's Day
Alternative. Title
Composer Hayes, William
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. IWH 15
Key D major
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 1 song
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. Before 1742
First Publication. 1742
Librettist Possibly Nahum Tate (1652–1715)
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Baroque
Piece Style Baroque
Instrumentation soprano, flute, strings, continuo

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Probably written for the celebration of St Cecilia's Day in Oxford. It is also a tribute to Henry Purcell, whose setting of the same text formed the centre-piece of his well-known ode 'Come ye sons of Art' (1694).

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