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2. Messiah (Handel) - Wikipedia

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   Messiah (HWV 56) [1] [n 1] is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel.The text was compiled from the King James Bible and the Coverdale Psalter [n 2] by Charles Jennens.

3. Structure of Handel's Messiah - Wikipedia

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   Handel often stresses a word by extended coloraturas, especially in several movements which are a parody of music composed earlier on Italian texts. He uses a cantus firmus on long repeated notes especially to illustrate God's speech and majesty, for example "for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it" in movement 4 .

4. List of compositions by George Frideric Handel - Wikipedia

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   For example, Handel's Messiah can be referred to as: HG xlv, HHA i/17, or HWV 56. [1] Some of Handel's music is also numbered based on initial publications, for example a 1741 publication by Walsh labelled twelve of Handel's concerti grossi as Opus 6.

5. Messiah Part I - Wikipedia

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   Messiah is not a typical Handel oratorio; there are no named characters, as are usually found in Handel’s setting of the Old Testament stories, possibly to avoid charges of blasphemy. It is a meditation rather than a drama of personalities, lyrical in method; the narration of the story is carried on by implication, and there is no dialogue.

6. Messiah Part III - Wikipedia

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   Messiah: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project; Georg Friedrich Händel / Messiah (1742) / A Sacred Oratorio / Words by Charles Jennens opera.stanford.edu; George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) / Messiah Simon Heighes, for The Sixteen recording, 1997; Handel Messiah Lindsay Kemp, program notes for Colin Davis recording, 2006

7. Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration - Wikipedia

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   Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration is a gospel album by various artists, released in 1992 on Warner Alliance.Executive produced by Norman Miller, Gail Hamilton and Mervyn Warren, it is a reinterpretation of the 1741 oratorio Messiah by George Frideric Handel, and has been widely praised for its use of multiple genres of African-American music, including spirituals, blues, ragtime, big ...