My Heart is Inditing (Coronation Anthem No. 4) (George Frederic Handel)

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Editor: Arie Fokkens (added 2007-09-24).   Score information: full score: A4, 38 pages, 376 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: My Heart is Inditing, HWV 261 (Coronation Anthem #4)
Composer: George Frederic Handel

Number of voices: 5vv  Voicing: SAATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthems
Language: English
Instruments: 2 oboes, 3 trumpets, timpani, 3 violins, viola, violoncello, and basso continuo (bassoon, double bass and organ)
Published:

Description: Composed For the coronation of King George II and Queen Caroline it was first performed on 11 October 1727 in Westminster Abbey during the coronation of the Queen.

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Original text and translations

Image:English.png English text

  1. My heart is inditing of a good matter:
    I speak of the things which I have made unto the King.
  2. Kings daughters were among thy honourable women
  3. Upon thy right hand did stand the Queen in vesture of gold
    and the King shall have pleasure in thy beauty.
  4. Kings shall be thy nursing fathers
    and queens thy nursing mothers.
After Psalm 45: 1, 10, 12 and Isaiah 49:23
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