 Samson (1743) |
| File: | handsam.zip (May 2007) 293 kB |
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| Full name of work: | Samson (1743) |
| 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 3hrs 7mins |
| Comments: | This ZIP File contains the following NAMED sections:- |
| Part 1: | 01-overt.nwc 1: Overture 02-day.nwc 2: This day, a solemn feast 03-awake.nwc 3: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound 04-gaza.nwc 4: Ye men of Gaza 05-awake.nwc 5: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound 06-loud.nwc 6: Loud as the thunder's awful voice 07-free.nwc 7: Then free from sorrow, free from thrall 08-awake.nwc 8: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound 09-angel.nwc 9: Why by an Angel 10-trmnt.nwc 10: Torments, alas! are not confin'd to heart 11-chnge.nwc 11: O change beyond report, thought, or belief! 12-miror.nwc 12: Oh mirror of our fickle state 13-might.nwc 13: Matchless in might 14-eclps.nwc 14: Total eclipse 15-woes.nwc 15: Ye see, my friends, how woes enclose me round 16-beam.nwc 16: O first-created beam 17-breth.nwc 17: Brethren and men of Dan 18-miser.nwc 18: Oh miserable change! 19-trust.nwc 19: Oh ever failing trust in mortal strength! 20-good.nwc 20: The good we wish for 21-deeds.nwc 21: Thy glorious deeds 22-evils.nwc 22: Justly these evils 23-grief.nwc 23: My grief for this 24-sleep.nwc 24: Why does the God of Israel sleep? 25-hope.nwc 25: There lies our hope! 26-know.nwc 26: Then shall they know 27-28son.nwc 27: For thee, my dearest son 29-30grt.nwc 29: The long eternity shall greet 30: Joys that are pure 31-thron.nwc 31: Then round about the starry throne |
| Part 2: | 32-despr.nwc 32: Despair not thus! 33-just.nwc 33: Just are the ways of God to man 34-evils.nwc 34: My evils hopeless are 35-retrn.nwc 35: Return, return, O God of Hosts 36-dust.nwc 36: To dust his glory they would tread 37-who.nwc 37: But who is this? 38-notes.nwc 38: With plaintive notes 39-alas.nwc 39: Alas! th'event was worse than I foresaw 40-love.nwc 40: Did Love constrain thee? 41-charm.nwc 41: Your charms to ruin led the way 42-forgv.nwc 42: Forgive what's done, nor think of what's past cure 43-3a-fa.nwc 43/43A: My faith and truth 44-faith.nwc 44: Her faith and truth 45-fleet.nwc 45: To fleeting pleasures make your court 46-rep44.nwc 46: Her faith and truth 478-45x2.nwc 47: How charming is domestic ease! 48: To fleeting pleasures make your court 49-rep44.nwc 49: Her faith and truth 50-think.nwc 50: Ne'er think of that 51-trait.nwc 51: Traitor to love! 52-gone.nwc 52: She's gone! A serpent manifest 53-virtu.nwc 53: It is not virtue, valour, wit or comeliness 54-favrd.nwc 54: Favour'd of Heaven 55-law.nwc 55: To man God's universal law 56-words.nwc 56: No words of peace 57-arms.nwc 57: Honour and arms 57-arms.nwc 57: Honour and arms 58-arms.nwc 58: Put on your arms 59-stren.nwc 59: My strength is from the living God 60-camst.nwc 60: Cam'st thou for this 61-go.nwc 61: Go, baffled coward, go 62-proof.nwc 62: Here lies the proof 63-jacob.nwc 63: Hear, Jacob's God 64-arise.nwc 64: Dagon, arise! 65-song.nwc 65: To song and dance we give the day 66-dance.nwc 66: To song and dance 67-fixed.nwc 67: Fixed in His everlasting seat |
| Part 3: | 68-trble.nwc 68: More trouble is behind 69-slave.nwc 69: Presuming slave 70-consd.nwc 70: Consider, Samson 71-thund.nwc 71: With thunder armed 72-courg.nwc 72: Be of good courage 73-sun.nwc 73: Thus when the sun 74-might.nwc 74: With might endued 75-6holy.nwc 75: The holy one of Israel 76: To fame immortal go 77-steps.nwc 77: Old Manoah, with youthful steps 78-9dagn.nwc 78: Great Dagon has subdued our foe 79: Great Dagon has subdued our foe 80-joy.nwc 80: What noise of joy was that? 81-love.nwc 81: How willing my paternal love 82-3-4-h.nwc 82: Your hopes of his delivery 83: Sinfonia 84: Heaven! What noise? 85-hear.nwc 85: Hear us, our God 86-run.nwc 86: Where shall I run 87-88son.nwc 87: Ye sons of Israel 88: Weep, Israel, weep 89-hence.nwc 89: Proceed we hence to find his body 90-dead.nwc 90: Dead march (No: 1) 91-dead.nwc 91: Dead march (No: 2) 92-body.nwc">92: The body comes; we'll meet it on the way 93-hero.nwc 93: Glorious hero 94-come.nwc 94: Come come: no time for lamentations now 95-seraf.nwc 95: Let the bright seraphim 96-unite.nwc 96: Let their celestial concerts all unite Firstly, 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). Secondly, as in a number of the longer Handel Works the commonly-available Scores miss out several of the sections; in the list above these are marked originally "Not available", but recently I have obtained versions of them from the Kalmus Miniature Score (K 01319), and they are now included. 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. |