Movements
- Overture: Larghetto e staccato—allegro—minuet
- Recitative (tenor): From harmony, from heavenly harmony
- Chorus: From harmony, from heavenly harmony
- Aria (soprano): What passion cannot music raise and quell!
- Aria (tenor) and Chorus: The trumpet's loud clangour
- March
- Aria (soprano): The soft complaining flute
- Aria (tenor): Sharp violins proclaim their jealous pangs
- Aria (soprano): But oh! What art can teach
- Aria (soprano): Orpheus could lead the savage race
- Recitative (soprano): But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher
- Grand Chorus with (soprano): As from the power of sacred lays
Read more about this topic: Ode For St. Cecilia's Day (Handel)
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