Alexander Balus (1747)
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| File: | hand_balusz.zip (September 2020) 250 kB |
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| Full name of work: | Alexander Balus (1747) |
| Composer: | Handel, George Friederic (1685-1759), German |
| About: | http://www.naxos.com/person/Geor.....Handel/24403.htm |
| Lyricist: | Thomas Morell |
| Music category: | Classical Choral Oratorio |
| Instruments: | arranged for SATB (piccolo, clarinet, French horn, bassoon) and piano (converted to strings etc) |
| Name of file creator: | Hooper, John |
| e-mail address: | john "at" learnchoralmusic "dot" co "dot" uk |
| website: | http://www.learnchoralmusic.co.uk |
| Running time: | 02:42:16 |
| Zipfile: | Y |
| Comments: | This ZIP File contains the following NAMED sections:- Part 1 01-Overture.nwc 1: Overture 02-Flush'd.nwc 2: Flush'd with conquest 03-partners.nwc 3: Thus far, ye glorious partners 04-author.nwc 4: Great author of this harmony 05-happy.nwc 5: And thus let happy Egypt's King 06-Thrice.nwc 6: Thrice happy the Monarch 07-Congratulation.nwc 7: Congratulation to our father's friend 08-Hark.nwc 8: Hark, Hark! He strikes the golden lyre 09-ambition.nwc 9: Be it my chief ambition 10-virtue.nwc 10: Fair virtue shall charm me 11-happy.nwc 11: Ye happy nations round 12-Jonathan.nwc 12: My Jonathan 13-resistless.nwc 13: Oh, what resistless charms 14-Subtle.nwc 14: Subtle love, with fancy viewing 15-Aspasia.nwc 15: Aspasia, I know not 16-How-happy.nwc 16: How happy should we mortals prove 17-accents.nwc 17: Check not the pleasing accents 18-smile.nwc 18: So shall the sweet attractive smile 19-blissful.nwc 19: O blissful state 20-pleasures.nwc 20: O, what pleasures, past expressing 21-hangs.nwc 21: Why hangs this heavy gloom 22-Mighty.nwc 22: Mighty love now calls to arms 22a-Heroes.nwc 22a: Heroes may vaunt their mighty deeds This Aria is an Appendix in the Alexander Balus IMSLP Score mentioned above 23-Judah.nwc 23: Ye sons of Judah 24-blessings.nwc 24: Great God, from whom all blessings spring Part 2 25-mankind.nwc 25: Kind hope, of all mankind the friend 26-Long-long.nwc 26: Long, long and happy live the King 27-Mithra.nwc 27: O Mithra, with thy brightest beams 28-sovereign.nwc 28: Stay, my dread sovereign 29-Hateful.nwc 29: Hateful man 30-calumny.nwc 30: O calumny 31-forebodings.nwc 31: Ah! Whence these dire forebodings 32-Toss'd.nwc 32: Toss'd from thought to thought I rove 33-winds.nwc 33: Give to the winds, fair Princess 33a-winds.nwc 33a: Give to the winds, fair Princess [Aria] from "Joseph and his Brethren": "Powerful guardians of all nature" 34-Love.nwc 34: Love, glory, ambition 35-thrive.nwc 35: Thus far my wishes thrive 36-Virtue.nwc 36: Virtue, thou ideal name 37-people.nwc 37: Ye happy people 38-Triumph.nwc 38: Triumph, Hymen, in the pair 39-Glad-time.nwc 39: Glad time, at length 40-wedded.nwc 40: Hail, wedded love 41-Hymen.nwc 41: Hymen, fair Urania's son Part 3 42-Symphony.nwc 42: Symphony 43-Tis-true.nwc 43: 'Tis true, instinctive nature 44-45-Here-amid.nwc 44: Here amid the shady woods |
| 45: | Mistaken Queen 46-voice.nwc 46: Ah, was it not my Cleopatra's voice? 47-Mighty.nwc 47: Mighty guardians of all nature This is more or less the same as "Powerful guardians of all nature" from "Joseph and his Brethren". I include it unchanged (save for the key). 48-Treachery.nwc 48: Treachery, O King 49-Fury.nwc 49: Fury, with red sparkling eyes. 50-Gods!.nwc 50: Gods! Can there be? 51-Strange.nwc 51: Strange reverse of human fate. 52-return.nwc 52: May he return. 53-radiant.nwc 53: To God, who made the radiant sun. 54-Sun, moon.nwc 54: Sun, moon and stars 55-false.nwc 55: Yes, he was false 56-Ungrateful.nwc 56: Ungrateful child. 57-O-sword.nwc 57: O sword, and thou, all-daring hand. 58-smile.nwc 58: Shall Cleopatra ever smile again? 59-tidings.nwc 59: Ungrateful tidings 60-O-take.nwc 60: O take me from this hateful light. 61-Forgive.nwc 61: Forgive, O Queen. 62-Calm-thou.nwc 62: Calm thou my soul. 63-Convey.nwc 63: Convey me to some peaceful shore. 64-Mysterious.nwc 64: Mysterious are thy ways. 65-servants.nwc 65: Ye servants of the eternal king. 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. There is an excellent performance of this Work by the Palmer Singers on YouTube starting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tuRvp_Azwg |