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

		Movements/Sections 1 Composition Year Before 1742 Genre Categories Songs; Odes; 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

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Scores

 Complete Score
*#40532 - 1.78MB, 8 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 561x⇩

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Simon Heighes (2009/10/4)

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Publisher Info.:

Oxford: William Hayes 'Vocal and Instrumental Musick II', 1742

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

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General Information

Work Title	A Song for St Cecilia's Day
Alternative Title

Composer	Hayes, William
Key	D major
Movements/Sections	1
Year/Date of Composition	Before 1742
First Publication	1742
Librettist	Possibly Nahum Tate (1652–1715)
Piece Style	Baroque
Instrumentation	Soprano, flute, strings and continuo

Misc. Comments

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).