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(Posted 2008-03-28) CPDL #16464: (Sibelius 4)

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-03-28). Score information: A4, 38 pages, 307 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original SSAATTBB version. Includes a piano version of the original orchestra accompaniment.

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(Posted 2008-03-06) CPDL #16304: (Sibelius 4)

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-03-06). Score information: A4, 21 pages, 241 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Arranged for four voices, SATB. Includes a piano version of the original orchestra accompaniment.

General Information

Title: Blest pair of Sirens
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: John Milton, from "At a Solemn Musick"

Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SSAATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem

Language: English
Instruments: Orchestra

First published: 1887
Description: Dedicated to C. V. Stanford and the members of the Bach Choir. Described by Parry as an "Ode".

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Blest pair of Sirens.

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 ==Original text and translations==
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-:Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy,
-:Sphere-born harmonious sisters, Voice and Verse,
-:Wed your divine sounds, and mixt power employ,
-:Dead things with inbreathed sense able to pierce;
-:And to our high-raised phantasy present
-:That undisturbed song of pure consent,
-:Aye sung before the sapphire-coloured throne
-:To him that sits thereon,
-:With saintly shout and solemn jubilee;
-:Where the bright Seraphim, in burning row,
-:Their loud, uplifted angel-trumpets blow,
-:And the Cherubic host in thousand quires
-:Touch their immortal harps of golden wires,
-:With those just spirits, that wear victorious palms,
-:Hymns devout and holy psalms
-:Singing everlastingly.
-:That we on Earth with undiscording voice,
-:May rightly answer that melodious noise;
-:As once we did, till disproportioned sin
-:Jarr'd against Nature's chime, and with harsh din
-:Broke the fair music that all creatures made
-:To their great Lord, whose love their motion swayed
-:In perfect diapason, whilst they stood
-:In first obedience, and their state of good.
-:O may we soon again renew that song
-:And keep in tune with Heaven, till God ere long
-:To his celestial consort us unite,
-:To live with him and sing in endless morn of light.}}
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