Court Odes: Welcome happy day in times record forever live


 Selected item (#2029) = Welcome happy day in times record forever live
 Attributes of this item 
incipit (first line(s), normalized): Welcome happy day in times record forever live
version (if more than one exists):
the item's genre (general): ode
the item's genre (specific): Birthday, William III
the institution/place or purpose 
for which the work was first destined:
Dublin court
the work's year (or focal date, if known): 1699
author of the text: [poet unknown]
composer of the music: Richard Leveridge
Data-note concerning authorship | dating | sources | genre | performances | places | institutions
(EMM, Fri May 3 16:39:27 2024, updated Fri May 3 16:40:46 2024):
See: Estelle Murphy, ‘Liveridge is in Ireland’: Richard Leveridge and the Earliest Surviving Dublin Birthday Odes, Music & Letters, Volume 98, Issue 1, February 2017, 32–73.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcx012
https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8282/
Data-note concerning authorship (EMM, Fri May 3 16:32:27 2024, updated Fri May 3 16:40:37 2024):
Previously tentatively attributed to John Blow, but identified as the holograph of Richard Leveridge and an ode for Dublin by Estelle Murphy.
Number of texts stored: 1  
  • Selected text (below): #126 / Source: GB-Lbl, Add. 31457, ff. 26v-44r
 Selected text (#126) / Source: GB-Lbl, Add. 31457, ff. 26v-44r  
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source for this text
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GB-Lbl, Add. 31457
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ff. 26v-44r
type of source: MS, music and words
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Wellcome welcome happy Day
In times record for ever live
to thee the Year shou’d Tribute pay
since we from ye much more receive
Than all the Year can give

Come let us all our Voices Joyne
& make this Harmony Devine
Great Nassau’s Deeds
In Pleasing Straines Rehearse
& Sing his Tryumphs in Heroick Verse

Call all ye Sons of Warr his Fame to Raise
Sound in Lofty airs his Godlike praise
William like Ceesar has through Ten-thousand Dangers run
Brought Conquests home & Mighty Trophies won
Behold what Blessings flow from his Success
See How all partake wth Joye ye Frutes of Peace
His Arms like Alcides setts free Mankind
and Garring Crowns In Lasting Treatyes Bind

Halcyon Days and Pleasant nights
Now pay him all your blissfull rites
And Crown his Hours with sweet Delights

Soe shall Dire Warr and Discord cease
And William Reigne ye God of Peace

Come let us Rejoyce with Strings & with Voice
Till by turns they shall Conquer and Pleasure Improve
ye Voices shall Charme and ye Instruments Move

Rejoyce for Albion’s Happy birth
and Martiall/Gratefull Consorts send from Ecchoing air
and Martiall Consorts send from Ecchoing earth/air


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