Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, the Words by Dryden: Set to Musick in the Year 1736 ['From Harmony", HWV 76] - Handel, George Frideric 1685-1759; Dryden, John 1631-1700 (London Arnold, 1792)
Date of composition is wrong, not 1736 but 1739.
Handel sets a poem which the English poet John Dryden wrote in 1687. The main theme of the text is the Pythagorean theory of harmonia mundi, that music was a central force in the Earth's creation.
An Ode or Serenata for the Birth Day of Queen Ann. Composed in the Year 1736
Keywords: Cecilia -- Saint -- 200-230; 18th Century (1701-1800); Vocal music; Cantata; London (United Kingdom)