 Alexander's Feast (1736) |
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| File: | handalex.zip (March 2010) 183 kB |
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| Full name of work: | Alexander's Feast (1736) |
| Composer: | Handel, George Friederic (1685-1759), German |
| About: | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handel |
| Lyricist: | Newburgh Hamilton |
| Music category: | Classical Choral Oratorio |
| Instruments: | arranged for SATB (piccolo, clarinet, French horn, bassoon) and piano (converted to strings etc) |
| Name of file creator: | John Hooper |
| e-mail address: | NWC "at" thehoopers "dot" demon "dot" co "dot" uk |
| website: | http://www.learnchoralmusic.co.uk |
| Running time: | 02:04:56 |
| Comments: | This ZIP File contains the following NAMED sections:- |
| Part 1: | 01-Ouverture.nwc 1: Ouverture 02-'Twas.nwc 2: 'Twas at the royal feast 03-Happy.nwc 3: Happy, happy, pair! 04-Timotheus.nwc 4: Timotheus plac'd on high THERE IS NO NO: 5 06-Jove.nwc 6: The song began from Jove 07-crowd.nwc 7: The list'ning crowd 08-ears.nwc 8: With ravish'd ears the monarch hears 09-Bacchus.nwc 9: In praise of Bacchus 10-Bacch.nwc 10: Bacchus, ever fair and young 11-Sooth.nwc 11: Sooth'd with the sound 12-chose-sop.nwc 12: He chose a mournful muse (Soprano version) 12-chose-alto.nwc (Contralto version) 13-Darius-sop.nwc 13: He sung Darius great and good (Soprano version) 13-Darius-alto.nwc (Contralto version) 14-downcast-sop.nwc 14: With downcast looks (Soprano version) 14-downcast-alto.nwc (Contralto version) 15-Behld.nwc 15: Behold Darius great and good 16a-master.nwc 16a: The mighty master smil'd 16b-master.nwc 16b: . . . . . . . . . . . . 17a-Lydian.nwc 17a: Softly sweet, in Lydian measures 17b-Lydian.nwc 17b: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-War-Sop.nwc 18: War, he sung, is toil and trouble (Soprano version) 18-War-Ten.nwc (Tenor version) 19-rend.nwc 19: The many rend the skies 20-pain.nwc 20: The prince, unable to conceal his pain 19-rend.nwc The many rend the skies (Repeat of 19) |
| Part 2: | 21-lyre.nwc 21: Now strike the golden lyre again 22-Revenge-B+B.nwc 22: Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries Behold a ghastly band (Bass only version) 22-Revenge-B+A.nwc (Bass, then Alto version) 23-vengeance.nwc 23: Give the vengeance due 24-princes.nwc 24: The princes applaud with a furious joy 25-Thais.nwc 25: Thais led the way 26+27.nwc 26: Thus, long ago 27: At last divine Cecilia came 28-voices.nwc 28: Your voices tune 29-imitate.nwc 29: Let's imitate her notes above 30-prize.nwc 30: Let old Timotheus yield the prize 31-prize.nwc 31: Let old Timotheus yield the prize 32-voice.nwc 32: Your voices tune The various alternate renderings are those as shown in the Novello score. There are no text/lyrics; these Files were generated purely for Choral Rehearsing purposes (using a published piano-reduction Score), and so don't look pretty even though they should sound reasonable (though that depends very much on your hardware/software; mine is a Soundblaster AWE64 Gold). Voice-emphasised Midi Files of the whole work can be downloaded for free from my Website (above). The Site also contains Midi Files for several rather more modern Composers, for which NWC versions may be available. |
