“From Harmony” (Text from John Dryden) (1987)

“From Harmony” from John Dryden's “Song for St. Cecilia's Day”

for Mixed Chorus

Don Freund

Freundworks Publishing

from “Song for St. Cecilia's Day�

John Dryden (1631-1700) From harmony, from heav'nly harmony, This universal frame began; When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, "Arise, ye more than dead."

Then cold and hot and moist and dry In order to their stations leap, And Music's pow'r obey.

From harmony, from heav'nly harmony, This universal frame began; From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.

“From Harmony” from John Dryden's “Song for St. Cecilia's Day” Commissioned by the Rhodes College Singers, Tony Lee Garner, conductor

Don Freund 1987

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© 1987 Don Freund

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