Trumpet call, Attune the lyre

Author: Louis J. Nau

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Text Information

First Line: Trumpet call, Attune the lyre
Author: Louis J. Nau
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Blest Cecilia, martyred maid
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

MENDELSSOHN (51171)

The tune is from the second chorus of Felix Mendelssohn's (PHH 279) Festgesang (Op. 68) for male voices and brass; it was first performed in 1840 at the Gutenberg Festival in Leipzig, a festival celebrating the anniversary of Gutenberg's invention of the printing press. Mendelssohn's tune is similar…

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The St. Cecilia Hymnal (2nd rev. ed.) #182

The St. Cecilia Hymnal. 4th ed. #d120

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