Ode for St. Cecilia's Day HWV 76: I. From Harmony, Recitativo

Music: George Frideric Hande From harmony, from heav'nly harmony This universal frame began: When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high: "Arise, Arise, Arise, Ye more than dead." Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap, Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music's pow'r obey. And Music's pow'r obey.