Whose voice did first inspire? (Samuel Webbe Jr.)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-01-17). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 347 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
General Information
Title: Whose voice did first inspire?
Composer: Samuel Webbe Jr.
Lyricist: Anon, probably the composercreate page
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SSTB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: c.1800 (n/d)
Description: "A new Christmas Ode, as sung at the Music Hall, Liverpool" A serious glee intended for concert performance, not liturgical use.
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Original text and translations
English text
Whose voice did first inspire the eastern lay,
Amid the starry grandeur of the night?
When choral angels hailed the rising day
That saw a Saviour born, the world's great light,
Whose voice? It was religion's voice; her theme divine
To shepherds, then to bright Cecilia giv'n,
In flowing chords, with rapture to refine
The heart of man and raise the soul to heav'n.