Modern musick (William Billings): Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m (DotNetWikiBot - removed redundant categories) |
m (Text replace - "Anthems}}<br>" to "Anthems}}") |
||
Line 11: | Line 11: | ||
{{Voicing|4|SATB}}<br> | {{Voicing|4|SATB}}<br> | ||
{{Genre|Sacred|Anthems}} | {{Genre|Sacred|Anthems}} | ||
{{Language|English}} | {{Language|English}} | ||
'''Instruments:''' {{acap}}<br> | '''Instruments:''' {{acap}}<br> |
Revision as of 19:26, 3 March 2012
Music files
ICON | SOURCE |
---|---|
File details | |
Help |
- CPDL #04152: Finale 2001
- Editor: Rafael Ornes (submitted 2002-11-05). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 208 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: Modern Musick
Composer: William Billings
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Psalm-Singer's Amusement, The (1781)
Description:
External websites:
Original text and translations
English text
- We are met for a concert of modern invention;
- To tickle the ear is our present intention.
- The audience are seated expecting to be treated
- With a piece of the best, with a piece of the best.
- And since we all agree to set the tune on E,
- The author's darling key he prefers to the rest
[Next four lines simultaneously]
- Let the bass take the lead and firmly proceed till the parts are agreed to fuge away. To
- Let the tenor succeed and follow the lead till the parts are agreed to
- Let the counter inspire the rest of the choir inflam'd with desire to
- Let the treble in the rear no longer forbear, but expressly declare for a
- fuge away.
- Then change to brisker time and up the ladder climb,
- And down again; then mount the second time
- And end the strain
- Then change the key to pensive tones
- And slow in treble time the notes exceeding low
- Keep down a while then rise by slow degrees;
- The Process will surely not fail to please.
- Thro' common and treble we jointly have run
- We'll give you their essence compounded in one
- Altho' we are strongly attached to the rest
- Six-four is the movement that pleases us best, that pleases us best.
- Six-four is the movement that pleases us best.
- And now we address you as friends to the cause;
- Performers are modest and write their own laws.
- Altho' we are sanguine and clap at the bars,
- 'Tis part of the hearers to clap their applause, to clap their applause.
- 'Tis part of the hearers to clap their applause.