Handle And The Glory of The Lord
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- Created on: 13-01-15 13:40
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- "And The Glory Of The Lord" Handel
- Rhythm/ metre/tempo
- Hemiola bar 9, gives an unclear sense of time signiture
- To finish there is a silence then 3 bars at a slower pace(adagio) to give it a drawn out ending
- Driving crotchet beat on the beat.
- metre:3/4
- Texture
- Short monophonic passages (bar 108-109)
- Homophonic and contrapuntal (polyphonic) sections
- imitation- bar 17
- number of playing parts varies
- Orchestra doubles the vocal linme
- Forces/ instrumentation
- organ and cello play the basso continuo
- Soprano, alto, tenor(male), bass vocal parts
- Two violin parts and a viola part
- Structure / melody and word setting
- No set form but is based on 4 motifs
- "and all flesh shall see it together"
- Short descending figure repeated
- "Shall be revealed"
- Melismatic
- descending sequence
- "for the mouth of the lord hath spoken it"
- mostly the same pitch
- longer note values
- "And the glory of the lord"
- outlines A major
- Syllabic
- dotted rhythms
- All repeated many times to ensure words are emphasised
- "and all flesh shall see it together"
- Orchestral introduction, a ritornello,it returns again in a shortened version
- No set form but is based on 4 motifs
- Harmony and tonality
- Key: A major
- modulates to E major and B major
- Ends with a plagal cadence in A major
- diatonic harmony throught
- Background
- First performed 1742
- Baroque period
- Chorus movement from an oratorio
- Written 1741
- Rhythm/ metre/tempo
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