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Part 1
01-Symphonia.nwc 1: Symphonia
02-Paran.nwc 2: Here in the Wilderness of Paran
03-righteous.nwc 3: The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance
04-Mercy.nwc 4: Have mercy on us, O Lord.
05-Food.nwc 5: Food they ask'd and all around
06-Omnipotence.nwc 6: No doubt Omnipotence is still the same
07-Guide.nwc 7: The Lord, our Guide, whom we revere
08-The Lord.nwc 8: The Lord, our Guide, come what may
09-Woman's.nwc 9: How hard the Woman's Fate
10-discord.nwc 10: Free from Discord, vile confusion
11-Avaunt.nwc 11: Avaunt, unpleasing wretch
12-Still-fill.nwc 12: Still fill the bowl
13a-Minuet.nwc 13a: Minuet
13b-Gavotte.nwc 13b: Gavotte
13c-Siciliano.nwc 13c: Siciliano
13-Sheep.nwc 13: Sheep
14-Gay-and-light.nwc 14: Gay and light as yonder sheep
15-Carmel.nwc 15: The Carmel's annual holiday
16-Happy.nwc 16: Happy, while we reign in pleasure
Part 2
17-Asaph.nwc 17: Asaph, 'tis well advised
18-Creator.nwc 18: Great Creator!
19-O-God.nwc 19:: O God, who in Thy
20-Thus-saith.nwc 20: Thus saith my Lord
21-Grateful.nwc 21: Grateful hearts enjoy the blessing
22-David.nwc 22: Who is this David?
23-Harps.nwc 23: With Harps new strung
24-Come.nwc 24: : Come, come! live with pleasure
25-Feast.nwc 25: Sing we the Feast
25b-Sing-we.nwc 25b: Sing we the Feast
26-Crown.nwc 25: Crown with festal pomp
27-Sheep.nwc 27: Thrice happy sheep
28-Eternal.nwc 28: Mind eternal
29-Fly.nwc 29: Fly, my good Mistress
30-Monster.nwc 30: Hell Monster!
31-Fury.nwc 31: Fury in all thy terrors rise
32-On-me.nwc 32: On me, my Lord, on me!
33-Mercy.nwc 33: Mercy, thou heavenly cherub
34-Blessed.nwc 34: Blessed be the Lord
35-depend.nwc 35: All creatures upon God depend
Part 3
Interludes (not included)
36-Dread.nwc 36: Ah! Whence this sudden dread?
37-Terrors.nwc 37: Oh! who can tell the terrors
38-Chang'd.nwc 38: How soon the scene is chang'd
39-slow.nwc 39: By slow degrees the wrath of God
40-Messenger.nwc 40: A messenger, my Lord
41-beauty.nwc 41: When Beauty Sorrow's livery wears
42-Observation.nwc 42: True is your observation!
43-Lovely.nwc 43: Lovely Beauty ever inviting
44-Handmaid.nwc 44: Behold! Thine Handmaid
45-Smiling.nwc 45: Come, ye Smiling Hours
46-Guardian.nwc 46: Guardian Angels, as ye fly
47-Happy!.nwc 47: Happy! Thrice happy, happy pair
48-caressing.nwc 48: Still caressing and caress'd
49-Praise.nwc 49: In praise, to great Jehova
50-Thoughts.nwc 50: Thoughts sublime my soul still exciting
51-Prince.nwc 51: O glorious Prince
There are no text/lyrics; these Files were generated purely for Choral Rehearsing purposes, 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.
As noted in <A HREF="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabal_(Handel)" target="_blank">Wikipedia,</A> "Nabal" (no HWV number) is an oratorio pastiche. It was compiled from the works of Handel in 1764 by John Christopher Smith. It was first performed on 16 March 1764 at Covent Garden, London. The recitatives are presumably the work of Smith, while the arias and choruses are largely borrowed from Handel's operas, oratorios, anthems and cantatas.
There is no published digital score, though a scanned hand-written one exists, from which a modern orchestral score was prepared by Joachim Carlos Martini for a recording by Junge Kantorei and the Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra, conducted by Martini. It was from a private copy of this Score that the NWC Files were made. Unfortunately, many of the sections in the Score, particularly the Recitatives, provided only a Bass Continuo line as the "backing", and I'm not clever enough to "realise" it in standard notation.
If you know of a Website from which can freely and lawfully be downloaded a printable Vocal score for this Work, please let me know the address.
The performance of this Work by Junge Kantorei is on YouTube <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjFnR99vxhsquot target="_blank">here</A>. Detailed comments about the Work, and about the Junge Kantorei performance, are provided <A HREF="http://www.gfhandel.org/recordings/reviews/nabal.htmquot target="_blank">here.</A>