My heart is inditing (George Frideric Handel)

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CPDL #15077: Icon_pdf.gif Full score, Vocal score, Instrumental parts Icon_snd.gif
Editor: Arie Fokkens (added 2007-09-24).   Score information: full score: A4, 38 pages, 376 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Full score, vocal score with keyboard reduction and instrumental parts available. Instrumental parts are packed in one zip file (6,5 Mbytes)
  • CPDL #6903: Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif
Editor: Michael Gibson (added 2004-04-08).   Score information: A4, 37 pages, 1616 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Vocal score with keyboard reduction. Large file (1.6 Mbytes), 4 movements, 4 midi files are zipped into one file.

General Information

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

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  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