MUSIC 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Hallelujah, Aria, Monophony
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Music 1a03 - handel ii - lecture 29. Placement: hallelujah follows he that dwellers in heaven (recit, and thous shalt break them (aria) at the end of part 2. We go from a thinner texture (recit): there is slow thickening of the texture (in the aria, and then we have the hallelujah chorus so texture thickens a lot. Hallelujah does not conclude messiah: part 3 conclude with an enormous chorus on word amen. Text of hallelujah: compilation of different verses rom book of revelations in the bible. 1) hallelujah, for the lord god omnipotent / reigneth, hallelujah (revelations 19:6) 2) the kingdom of this world is become the / kingdom o the lord, and of his christ;/ and he shall reign for ever and ever, hallelujah (11:15) 3) king of kings, and lord of lords, and he shall reign for ever and ever, hallelujah (19:16: also repeated texts, created ve different melodies for each of the sections.
