Odes to Saint Cecilia

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Trackliste From harmony, from heav'nly harmony Draghi, Giovanni Battista Symphony From harmony, from heav'nly harmony When Nature underneath a heap What passion cannot Musick raise and quell! The trumpet's loud clangor The soft complaining flute Sharp violins proclaim But oh! what art can teach Orpheus cou'd lead the savage race As from the pow'r of sacred lays The glorious day is come Blow, John Symphony The glorious day is come, that will for ever be The spheres, those instruments divine Couch'd by the pleasant Heliconian spring And first the trumpet's part The battle done, the loud alarms do cease Excesses of pleasure now crowd on apace Ah Heav'n! what is't I hear? Music! celestia! Music! what can be This that blest king and god-like prophet knew And thus by Music's pow'r