Ye sons of Phoebus all appear
x / x x x / x /
To welcome the returning year
Cho:
x / x x x / x /
To welcome the returning year

CT solo (recorders):
/ x / x / x /
All that gently touch the string 3/i [6/4]
x x / / x / x / x /
Or the loud organ beat Or shake the lyre
x x / / x / x / x /
Or the soft pipe with artful breath inspire
/ x / x / x /
All that play and all that sing
/ x / / x / x / x /
Come the glad months with music usher in
Comments: Strong delay on ‘All…’ (both lines).
‘Come’ arrives on 2nd beat of bar, immediately after ‘sing’ on beat 1. No repetitions of ‘come’.
B solo:
x / x / x / x /
Ye sons of Phoebus all appear Split C-time
Cho:
x / x / x / x /
Ye sons of Phoebus all appear
[new section]
/ / x / x x x /
Tis fit with music we begin
x / x / x / x /
The God of music is the same
x / x / x /
That measures out the year

T solo:
/ x x / / x x /
What shall I sing, what shall I play 3/i
x / x / x / x /
To celebrate the year’s birthday
x / / x / x /
For whom shake the trembling lyre
x / x / x / x /
For whom the tuneful pipe inspire
x / x / x / x /
For whom awake the sleeping lyre
/ x x / / x x /
What shall we sing, what shall we play
x / x / x / x /
To celebrate the year’s birthday
Comments: French gigue style, much use of sautillant figure for opening line (dactylic). Developed as ritornello afterwards: strings, then recorders, then strings. Sautillant figures and other quicker dotted rhythms throughout.
A & B duet:
/ x / x / x /
Caesar all our songs does claime Split C-time
x / / / x / / x
There is no other name worthy
x / x x x /
The voice of us and fame

/ / x x / / x /
Tis only for great Caesar’s sake 3/i
/ / x / x / x /
More coming years we long to see
x / / / / / x /
He each new day does happy make
x x x x / / x /
That else would a new torment be

/ x / x / x / Split C-time
What are days or months or years
x / x / x / x /
If Godlike Caesar disappear
/ x / x / x /
Caesar all our songs does claime
x / / / x /
There is no other name

Comments: Triple-time section is mostly even-crotchet. Melismas contain dotted rhythms, but no syllabic dots.
Note change back to time signature to Split C-time at change to fully trochaic line.
B solo:
x / x / x / x / x /
In Caesar all the joint perfections meet 4/4
x / x / x / x /
That featur’d here and there we find
/ / x / x / x / x /
Each virtue does his sister virtue greet
x / x x x / x /
And peacefully adorn his mind

x / x / x x x / x /
His well known valour and heroic heat 3/i

/ x / x / x /
Softest pity does allay
x / x / x / x / x /
Where most offended goodness most he shows
/ / x / x / x /
Thus twice he overcomes his foes
x / x / x /
But this the nobler way
/ x x / x / x /
Mercy with justice takes her seat
x / xx / x / x / x / x /
And every virtue does his sister virtue greet
Comments: ‘overcomes’ – ‘ver’ on first beat of bar.
Cho:
/ x / x / x x /
Sing aloud that heaven may [hear] 3i to 2 to split C to 2 etc.
/ x / x x x / x / x /
Hear the thanks that we for giving Caesar pay
/ x x x / x x / x /
Praying for him how for our selves we pray
Comments: Starts in 3i for ‘Sing aloud’ (seamless from prev. verse) Then changes to 2. Line begins after minim rest (on weak beat).

A, T, B verse:
/ / x / x / x x x /
May all the pleasures greatness and renown 3/i

x / x / x / x x x /
Without the anxious troubles of a crown
/ / x x / /
This year on him be shed
/ / x / x / x / x /
May all the blessings, plenty, ease and peace
x / x x x x / x x x /
He showers on us with multiplied increase
/ x x / x /
Flow on his royal head
Alto solo:
/ / x/ x x x / x /
May Gloriana in whose sacred womb Split C-time
/ / x / x / x / x /
Are treasur’d up the hopes of years to come
/ x x / / /
Crown with a Prince this year
x / x / x / x / x /
A Prince that shall of Caesar’s mighty mind

/ / x / x / x / x /
May Gloriana’s charming sweetness joined
x / x / x /
The noble image bear
Cho:
x / x x x / x /
Then Caesar shall thy Godlike race 3/i
x / x / x x / x /
When late in heaven you take thy place

NEW SECTION (still 3i, triple tercet).
x / x / x / x /
Command the isles and awe the sea
x / / / x / x /
Till years no more renew’d shall be
x / x / x / x / x / x /
Till time be swallow’d up in vast eternity