Whose voice did first inspire? (Samuel Webbe Jr.)

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• (Posted 2022-01-17)  CPDL #67598: 

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 composer^{create 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.

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.