 Judas Maccabaeus (1746) |
| File: | hanjudm.zip (July 2006) 246 kB |
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| Full name of work: | Judas Maccabaeus (1746) |
| 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 15mins |
| Comments: | This ZIP File contains the following NAMED sections 01-overt.nwc 1: Overture 02-mourn.nwc 2: Mourn, ye afflicted children 03-well.nwc 3: Well may your sorrows : 04-scene.nwc 4: From this dread scene ; 05-sion.nwc 5: For Sion lamentation make 06-vain.nwc 6: Not vain is all this storm of grief 07-pious.nwc 7: Pious orgies 08-fathr.nwc 8: O Father, whose Almighty power 09-deity.nwc 9: I feel the Deity within 10-11arm.nwc 10: Arm, arm, ye brave 11: We come, in bright array 12-well.nwc 12: 'Tis well, my friends 13-forth.nwc 13: Call forth thy powers 14-kneel.nwc 14: To Heavn's Almighty King we kneel 15-librt.nwc 15: O Liberty, thou choicest treasure 16-come.nwc 16: Come, ever-smiling Liberty 17-judas.nwc 17: O Judas, may these noble views inspire 18-libty.nwc 18: 'Tis Liberty 19-come.nwc 19: Come, ever-smiling Liberty 20-lead.nwc 20: Lead on, lead on 21-willd.nwc 21: So willed my father 22-disdn.nwc 22: Disdainful of danger 23-ambit.nwc 23: Ambition! if e're honour was thy aim 24-unhal.nwc 24: No unhallow'd desire 25-haste.nwc 25: Haste we, my brethren 26-hear.nwc 26: Hear us, O Lord 27-falln.nwc 27: Fallen is the foe 28-hero.nwc 28: Victorious hero 29-rapid.nwc 29: So rapid thy course is 30-freed.nwc 30: Well may we hope our freedom to receive 312-tune.nwc 31: Sion now her head shall raise 32: Tune your harps 33-crown.nwc 33: O let eternal honours crown his name 34-spoil.nwc 34: From mighty kings he took the spoil 35-6-jud.nwc 35: Hail, Judea, happy land 36: .... Ditto .... Ditto 37-thank.nwc 37: Thanks to my brethren 38-vain.nwc 38: How vain is man who boasts in fight 39-judas.nwc 39: O Judas O my brethren 40-1wret.nwc 40: Ah! wretched Israel 42-comft.nwc 42: Be comforted 43-lord.nwc 43: The Lord worketh wonders 44-arms.nwc 44: My arms! against this Giorgias will I go 45-6alrm.nwc 45: Sound an alarm 46: We hear 47-enuff.nwc 47: Enough! To Heaven we leave 48-pious.nwc 48: With pious hearts 49-worsh.nwc 49: Ye worshippers of God 50-wise.nwc 50: Wise men, flattering, may deceive you 51-2-bow.nwc 51: O never bow we down 52: We never will bow down 53-fathr.nwc 53: Father of Heaven 54-flame.nwc 54: See, see yon flames 55-grant.nwc 55: O grant it, Heaven 56-lute.nwc 56: So shall the lute and harp awake 57-capha.nwc 57: From Capharsalarma 58-hero.nwc 58: See, the conquering hero comes 59-march.nwc 59: March 60-sing.nwc 60: Sing unto God 61-sweet.nwc 61: Sweet flow the strains 62-honor.nwc 62: With honour let desert be crowned 63-peace.nwc 63: Peace to my countrymen 64-togod.nwc 64: To our great God 65-again.nwc 65: Again to earth let gratitude descend 66-peace.nwc 66: O lovely peace 67-judah.nwc 67: Rejoice, O Judah 68-amen.nwc 68: Halleluja, 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. |