Messiah in Full Score

by Handel, George Frideric; Mann, Alfred

• ISBN13: 9780486419060
• ISBN10: 0486419061
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-24
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Best-known, most beloved large-scale musical work in the English-speaking world has given millions of performers their primary experience in singing classical music. Today, it is the supreme example of the English oratorio a brilliant amalgam of traditional Italian opera, English anthem, and German Passion.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Sources and Performance	v
PART I
Sinfony	1	(4)
Acc. Recit. Comfort ye	5	(2)
Aria Every valley	7	(5)
Chorus And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed	12	(7)
Acc. Recit. Thus saith the Lord	19	(3)
Aria But who may abide the day of His coming	22	(7)
Chorus And He shall purify	29	(6)
Recitative Behold, a virgin shall conceive	35	(1)
Aria and Chorus O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion	35	(8)
Acc. Recit. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth	43	(1)
Aria The people that walked in darkness	44	(3)
Chorus For unto us a Child is born	47	(12)
Pifa	59	(1)
Recitative There were shepherds abiding in the field	60	(1)
Recitative And the angel said unto them	60	(1)
Acc. Recit. And suddenly there was with the angel	61	(1)
Chorus Glory to God	62	(4)
Aria Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion	66	(6)
Recitative Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened	72	(1)
Aria He shall feed His flock like a shepherd	72	(4)
Chorus His yoke is easy	76	(6)
PART II
Chorus Behold the Lamb of God	82	(3)
Aria He was despised	85	(5)
Chorus Surely He hath borne our griefs	90	(3)
Chorus And with His stripes we are healed	93	(4)
Chorus All we like sheep have gone astray	97	(8)
Acc. Recit. All they that see Him, laugh Him to scorn	105	(2)
Chorus He trusted in God that He would deliver Him	107	(6)
Acc. Recit. Thy rebuke hath broken His heart	113	(1)
Arioso Behold, and see if there be any sorrow	114	(1)
Acc. Recit. He was cut off out of the land of the living	115	(1)
Aria But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell	115	(2)
Chorus Lift up your heads, O ye gates	117	(8)
Recitative Unto which of the angels said He	125	(1)
Chorus Let all the angels of God worship Him	126	(3)
Aria Thou art gone up on high	129	(3)
Chorus The Lord gave the word	132	(3)
Aria How beautiful are the feet of them	135	(1)
Chorus Their sound is gone out into all lands	136	(4)
Aria Why do the nations so furiously rage	140	(4)
Chorus Let us break their bonds asunder	144	(6)
Recitative He that dwelleth in heaven	150	(1)
Aria Thou shalt break them	150	(3)
Chorus Hallelujah!	153	(9)
PART III
Aria I know chat my Redeemer liveth	162	(5)
Chorus Since by man came death	167	(3)
Acc. Recit. Behold, I tell you a mystery	170	(1)
Aria The trumpet shall sound	170	(11)
Recitative Then shall be brought to pass	181	(1)
Duet and Chorus O death, where is thy sting-But thanks be to God	181	(9)
Aria If God be for us	190	(5)
Chorus Worthy is the Lamb	195