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AOS 1 HANDEL : ‘And the Glory of the Lord’ from The Messiah

AOS 1 HANDEL : ‘And the Glory of the Lord’ from The Messiah. The background to the piece. Handel wrote it in 1741 in his house in Brook Street in London where the Handel museum is today . The most famous part of the Messiah is the Hallelujah chorus

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AOS 1 HANDEL : ‘And the Glory of the Lord’ from The Messiah

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  1. AOS 1HANDEL: ‘And the Glory of the Lord’ from The Messiah

  2. The background to the piece • Handel wrote it in 1741 in his house in Brook Street in London where the Handel museum is today. • The most famous part of the Messiah is the Hallelujah chorus • The whole of the Messiah is over 2 hours long with lots of different sections. • The chorus we learn about is only a few minutes

  3. What do you need to know ? • This is for a Choir of SATB voices: • SOPRANO • ALTO • TENOR • BASS • It is from one of Handel’s most famous pieces - THE MESSIAH which is a religious (sacred) piece of music. • The MESSIAH is an oratoriowhich is like an opera with solos, orchestra, choruses but since it is a sacred work it is performed in a church (without acting) and not a theatre.

  4. What is the music like ? • It is for SATB and orchestra • Strings • Oboes • Bassoons • Kettledrums (timpani) • Harpsichord which played along with the orchestra in Baroque times. • It is in A major (3 sharps !) • REMEMBER:All major scales follow the pattern of Tone (A-B), Tone (B-C#), Semitone (C#-D), Tone (D-E), Tone (E-F#), Tone (F#-G#), Semitone (G#-A)

  5. What is the music like ? • The piece has 4 main themes or melodies • And the glory of the Lord… • Shall be revealed…. • And all flesh shall see it together… • For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Singing these will help you to revise !

  6. There are different types of TEXTURE used.. • HOMOPHONIC – where all parts (the choir) move together at the same time and sing together in HARMONY • IMITATION - where one part begins and is then copied by another part • POLYPHONIC – where many different parts move at different times singing/playing different things.

  7. Other features you need to learn about include … • HEMIOLArhythms –this is where the normal beat of 3 in a bar gets changed for a short time to a beat of 2 – it gives the rhythms energy • SEQUENCES - sing the tune Shall Be revealed – this has them – patterns going up and down • CADENCES - the last few chords in a piece of section – this ends with a PLAGAL cadence (Hath spoken it)

  8. Do you understand the vocabulary ? • SATB • SEQUENCE • BAROQUE • ORATORIO • HEMIOLA • SOPRANO • ALTO • TENOR • BASS • HOMOPHONIC • DIATONIC • IMITATION • POLYPHONIC • MODULATION • CADENCE

  9. AOS 1HANDEL: ‘And the Glory of the Lord’ from The Messiah

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