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ST CAECILIA (ST CECILIA) - LIST OF MUSIC IN HER HONOUR

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The following is a list of musical works, which are examples of those written to the glory of St Cecilia (St Caecilia) from around 600 AD until the present day. It should be noted where, in the list, alternative spellings of composers’ surnames are provided, where this applies, this is to facilitate search engines accessing this page:

Year of
Composition

 Composer Title of Work Comments   Recording Sample
1686 Charpentier, Marc-Antoine Caecilia virgo et martyr H.415 - H415A For soloists, chorus and 2 treble instruments  
1687 Draghi, Giovanni Battista Song for St Cecilia’s Day “From harmony, heavenly harmony”  
1691 Blow, John The glorious day is come  
1692 Purcell, Henry Ode for St Cecilia’s Day Hail! Bright Cecilia (Z.328), also known as Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, was composed by Henry Purcell to a text by the Irishman Nicholas Brady in 1692 in honour of the feast day of Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians. Brady’s poem was derived from John Dryden’s “A Song for St Cecilia’s Day” of 1687. With a text full of references to musical instruments (it is suggested that Cecilia invented the organ), the work requires a wide variety of vocal soloists and obbligato instruments. Brady extols the birth and personality of musical instruments and voices, and Purcell treats these personalities as if they were dramatic characters. The airs employ a variety of dance forms. “Hark, each tree” is a sarabande on a ground. It is a duet on a ground-bass between, vocally, soprano and bass, and instrumentally, between recorders and violins (“box and fir” are the woods used in the making of these instruments). “With that sublime celestial lay” and “Wond’rous machine” are in praise of the organ. “Thou tun’st this world” is set as a minuet. “In vain the am’rous flute” is set to a passacaglia bass. In spite of Brady’s conceit of the speaking forest (it should be remembered that English organs of the period typically had wooden pipes), Purcell scored the warlike music for two brass trumpets and copper kettle drums instead of fife and (field) drum. The orchestra also includes two recorders (called flutes) with a bass flute, two oboes (called hautboys), strings and basso continuo.   Listen to recording extract on this website - click here to access
1706 Händel, Georg Friederic (or Handel or Haendel) Tu fedel? Tu costante? Copied for Ruspoli, 1707, 1708  
1708 Scarlatti, Alessandro Il martirio di santa Cecilia Oratorio first performed on 1 March 1708  
1711 Händel, Georg, Friederic (or Handel or Haendel) Splenda l'alba in oriente Survives only in fragmentary form.  
1720 de Brossard, Sébastien Cantique pour Saint-Cécile SdB.9  
1720 Scarlatti, Alessandro Messa di Santa Cecilia  
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