SATB + piano 4-hands (or brass, piano, percussion)

NOTE FROM THE COMPOSER

This festival grand opener or closer is from Joseph Addison’s “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, At Oxford.”

Instrumental parts available from the publisher: 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba, percussion, and piano.

TEXT

Consecrate the place and day,
To music and Cecilia
Let no rough winds approach, nor dare
Invade the hallow’d bounds,
Nor rudely shake the tuneful air,
Nor spoil the fleeting sounds.
Nor mournful sigh no groan be head,
But gladness dwell on every tongue….