With breath the spacious organ fill (Samuel Webbe)

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• (Posted 2022-01-03)  CPDL #67367: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-01-03).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 129 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC SA

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Title: With breath the spacious organ fill
Composer: Samuel Webbe
Lyricist: Theophilus Parsons^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: c.1792 (n/d)
Description: A setting of Parsons' 1699 Ode to St Cecilia.

Original text and translations

English text

With breath the spacious organ fill;
With vital breath the trumpet swell;
Inspire the soft'ning flute with skill;
And let Cecilia, goddess of our song,
In melting accents ever dwell
On every string and every tongue.