 Messiah (1742 et al) |
| File: | handmesscrv.zip (March 2007) 220 kB |
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| Full name of work: | Messiah (1742 et al) |
| Composer: | Handel, George Friederic (1685-1759), German |
| Arranger: | N/A |
| About: | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handel |
| Lyricist: | N/A |
| First line: | N/A |
| 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.thehoopers.demon.co.uk |
| Running time: | about 2hrs 35mins |
| Comments: | This ZIP File contains the following named sections:- |
| Part 1: | 00-sinfn.nwc Sinfony 01-comft.nwc 1: Comfort ye, my people 02-vally.nwc 2: Ev'ry valley shall be exalted 03-glory.nwc 3: And the glory of the Lord 04-shake.nwc 4: Thus saith the Lord of Hosts 05-abide.nwc 5: But who may abide the day of His coming? 06-purif.nwc 6: And He shall purify the sons of Levi 07-emman.nwc 7: Behold, a virgin shall conceive 0809zion.nwc08: O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion 09: O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion 10-dark.nwc10: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth 11-walkd.nwc11: The people that walked in darkness 12-child.nwc12: For unto us a Child is born 13-pifa.nwc13: Pifa 14-angel.nwc14: There were shepherds abiding in the field 15-glory.nwc15: Glory to God in the highest 16-rejoy.nwc16: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion 17-eyes.nwc17: Then shall the eyes of the blind be open'd 18-flock.nwc18: He shall feed His flock like a shepherd 19-yoke.nwc19: His yoke is easy, His burthen is light |
| Part 2: | 20-lamb.nwc20: Behold the Lamb of God 21-despd.nwc21: He was despised and rejected 22-surel.nwc22: Surely, He hath borne our griefs 23-strip.nwc23: And with His stripes we are healed 24-sheep.nwc24: All we like sheep have gone stray 25-scorn.nwc25: All they that see Him, laugh Him to scorn 26-trust.nwc26: He trusted in God that He would deliver Him 27-brokn.nwc27: Thy rebuke hath broken His heart 28-behld.nwc28: Behold, and see if there be any sorrow 2930soul.nwc29: He was cut off out of the land of the living 31-lift.nwc31: Lift up your heads, O ye gates 3233angl.nwc32: Unto which of the angels said He at any time? 33: Let all the angels of God worship Him 34-high.nwc34: Thou art gone up on high 35-prech.nwc35: The Lord gave the word 36-feet.nwc36: How beautiful are the feet of them 37-soun.nwc37: Their sound is gone out into all lands 37-soun.nwc37: Their sound is gone out into all lands 39-bonds.nwc39: Let us break their bonds asunder 4041brak.nwc40: He that dwelleth in heaven 41: Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron 42-allel.nwc42: Hallelujah |
| Part 3: | 44-since.nwc44: Since by man came death 45-mysty.nwc45: Behold, I tell you a mystery 46-trump.nwc46: The trumpet shall sound 4749thks.nwc47: Then shall be brought to pass .. 48: O death, where is thy sting 49: But thanks be to God 50-ifgod.nwc50: If God is for us 51-wrthy.nwc51: Worthy is the Lamb that was slain 52-amen.nwc52: Amen 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. |