O'er Handel's tomb (James Nares)

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• (Posted 2020-02-02)  CPDL #56884: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2020-02-02).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 94 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: O'er Handel's tomb
Composer: James Nares
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Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: ATB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1775
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English text

O'er Handel's tomb Apollo wept,
The bard in laurel'd honours slept;
Then, through the element of air,
The God was heard his will declare:
Though turned to dust, my Handel's name
Shall ever fill the trump of Fame.