Sheet Music Prokeimenon the Lord Said Unto Me Thou Art My Son Today I Have Begotten Thee

Back in 2015, I visited Handel'due south home in London to run into the rooms where he equanimous. While I was at that place I spoke with Dr. Ruth Smith, a Cambridge scholar on Handel. She explained that the lyrics (the libretto) were non written by Handel himself, but that they are simply Scripture texts arranged past Handel's friend, Charles Jennens.

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In a time of rising secularism and humanism in England, Jennens was a member of the "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel" and a passionate evangelical believer. He believed that putting the gospel to music would communicate its truth, non but intellectually, but at a deep heart level.

This libretto was made up entirely of Sometime and New Testament texts combined to nowadays the unabridged Christian bulletin in a unmarried slice. When it was finished he took it to his friend, the not bad composer, George Handel.

For 18 months the libretto sat on Handel's shelf gathering dust until one twenty-four hours he took information technology down, dusted it off, and in three intense weeks, shut up in his apartment on Beck Street, composed the oratorio that made the words come live. He barely ate or slept; he was completely engulfed in the creation of this music—and he wasn't alone. When he got to the Hallelujah chorus, his assistant found him in tears, saying, "I think I did see sky open, and the very face of God."

Handel's Messiah captures the deep emotion of the story of our redemption. For your own copy of the 2-disc drove, I recommend yous get a copy from Haven here . Beneath, y'all can view the lyrics that make up this boggling piece of Scripture prepare to music.

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Note: The text was set by Handel and differ from the King Jame'due south Version in various places.

Office 1

1. Sinfonia – (Instrumental)

2. Accompagnato (Tenor) – "Condolement ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is achieved, that her iniquity is pardoned. The vocalization of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, brand direct in the desert a highway for our God." (Isaiah 40, vv.1–iii)

3. Air (Tenor) – "Ev'ry valley shall be exalted, and ev'ry mountain and loma made depression: the kleptomaniacal straight and the crude places obviously:" (Isaiah xl, v.4)

4.  Chorus – "And the glory of the Lord shall exist revealed, and all mankind shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken information technology. (Isaiah xl, v.5)

5. Accompagnato (Bass) – "Thus saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts: Withal once, a little while and I will milkshake the heavens and the earth, the sea, and the dry land. And I volition shake all nations, and the want of all nations shall come up." (Haggai 2, vv.6–7); "The Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come up to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts." (Malachi three, 5.1)

6. Air (Bass) – "But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is similar a refiner'south burn down." (Malachi 3, v.2)

7. Chorus – "And he shall purify the sons of Levi, that they may offer unto the Lord an offer in righteousness." (Malachi 3, five.three)

8. Recitative (Alto) – "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and conduct a son, and shall telephone call his name Emmanuel, God with us." (Isaiah seven, five.14; Matthew 1, v.23)

9. Air (mezzo-soprano) and Chorus – "O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, go thee upwardly into the high mountain. O m that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift upwardly thy voice with strength; lift it up, exist not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!" (Isaiah 40, v.nine); "Ascend, shine, for thy light is come up, and the celebrity of the Lord is risen upon thee." (Isaiah lx, v.1)

10. Accompagnato (bass) – "For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: merely the Lord shall ascend upon thee, and his celebrity shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come up to thy light, and kings to the effulgence of thy rising." (Isaiah threescore, vv.2–three)

11. Air (bass) – "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; and they that dwell in the land of the shadow of expiry, upon them hath the light shined." (Isaiah nine, v.2)

12. Chorus – "For unto us a child is built-in, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." (Isaiah 9, v.6)

13. Pifa Pastoral Sinfonia – (Instrumental)

14a. Recitative (soprano) – "In that location were shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by dark." (Luke two, v.8)

14b. Accompagnato (soprano) "And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone circular near them: and they were sore afraid." (Luke ii, v.9)

15. Recitative (soprano) – "And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you skilful tidings of peachy joy, which shall exist to all people. For unto you is built-in this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." (Luke ii, 10–xi)

16. Accompagnato (soprano) – "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying," (Luke 2, v.13)

17. Chorus – "Chorus Celebrity to God in the highest, and peace on earth, good volition toward men." (Luke 2, five.xiv)

18. Air (soprano) – "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is the righteous Saviour, and he shall speak peace unto the heathen." (Zechariah 9, vv.9–10)

19. Recitative (mezzo-soprano) – "And so shall the optics of the bullheaded be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped. And then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the impaired shall sing." (Isaiah 35, vv.5–6)

xx. Duet (mezzo-soprano/soprano) – "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and behave them in his bust, and gently lead those that are with young. (Isaiah 40, five.11); "Come unto him, all ye that labour, come unto him, that are heavy laden, and he will give you rest. Take his yoke upon y'all, and learn of him; for he is meek and lowly of heart: and ye shall discover residual unto your souls." (Matthew eleven, vv.28–29)

21. Chorus – "His yoke is easy, and his burthen is light." (Matthew 11, five.30)

Function two

22. Chorus – "Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh abroad the sin of the world." (John one, v.29)

23. Air (mezzo-soprano) – "He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. (Isaiah 53, five.three); "He gave his back to the smiters, and his cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: he hid not his face from shame and spitting." (Isaiah l, v.6)

24. Chorus – "Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him;" (Isaiah 53, vv.4–5)

25. Chorus – "And with his stripes nosotros are healed." (Isaiah 53, v.5)

26. Chorus – "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." (Isaiah 53, v.6)

27. Accompagnato (tenor) – "All they that see him express mirth him to scorn: they shoot out their lips, and milk shake their heads, saying," (Psalm 22, v.vii)

28. Chorus – "He trusted in God that he would evangelize him: permit him deliver him, if he delight in him." (Psalm 22, v.8)

29. Accompagnato (tenor) – "Thy rebuke hath broken his center; he is full of heaviness. He looked for some to have pity on him, merely at that place was no man, neither found he any to comfort him." (Psalm 69, v.20)

30. Arioso (tenor) – "Behold, and come across if there be whatsoever sorrow like unto his sorrow." (Lamentations 1, v.12)

31. Accompagnato (tenor) – "He was cut off out the country of the living: for the transgressions of thy people was he stricken." (Isaiah 53, v.8)

32. Air (tenor) – "But thou didst not leave his soul in hell; nor didst thou suffer thy Holy Ane to meet abuse." (Psalm 16, five.10)

33. Chorus – "Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift upwardly, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come up in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle." (Psalm 24, vv.7–x)

34. Recitative (tenor) – "Unto which of the angels said he at any fourth dimension, M art my Son, this day take I begotten thee?" (Hebrews 1, 5.5)

35. Chorus – "Permit all the angels of God worship him." (Hebrews 1, v.vi)

36. Air (mezzo-soprano) – "Thou art gone up on high; one thousand hast led captivity captive, and received gifts for men: yea, even for thine enemies, that the Lord God might dwell among them." (Psalm 68, v.18)

37. Chorus – "The Lord gave the word: great was the company of the preachers." (Psalm 68, v.eleven)

38. Air (soprano) – "How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!" (Romans 10, 5.15)

39. Chorus – "Their audio is gone out into all lands, and their words unto the ends of the earth." (Romans 10, v.18)

40. Air (bass) – "Why exercise the nations then furiously rage together: and why do the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth rising upward, and the rulers have counsel together against the Lord, and against his Anointed." (Psalm 2, vv.1–2)

41. Chorus – "Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their yokes from us." (Psalm ii, v.iii)

42. Recitative (tenor) – "He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn: the Lord shall have them in derision." (Psalm 2, v.4)

43. Air (tenor) – "Grand shall break them with a rod of iron; thou shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel." (Psalm 2, five.9)

44. Chorus – "Hallelujah: for the Lord God almighty reigneth." (Revelation 19, five.6); "The kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever." (Revelation eleven, v.15); "Rex of Kings, and Lord of Lords." (Revelation 19, v.16) "Hallelujah!"

Part iii

45. Air (soprano) – "I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand up at the latter day upon the world: And though worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." (Task 19, vv.25–26); "For now is Christ risen from the dead, the starting time fruits of them that sleep." (I Corinthians fifteen, five.twenty)

46. Chorus – "Since by man came death, by man came as well the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." (I Corinthians 15, vv.21–22)

47. Accompagnato (bass) – "Behold, I tell y'all a mystery; we shall not all sleep, only nosotros shall all be inverse, In a moment, in the twinkling of an centre, at the final trumpet:" (I Corinthians 15, vv.51–52)

48. Air (bass) – "The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be inverse. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." (I Corinthians 15, 52–53)

49. Recitative (mezzo-soprano) – "Then shall be brought to laissez passer the proverb that is written: Decease is swallowed upward in victory." (I Corinthians fifteen, v.54)

l. Duet (mezzo-soprano/tenor) – "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of decease is sin; and the force of sin is the law." (I Corinthians xv, vv.55–5six)

51. Chorus – "Simply thank you be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." (I Corinthians 15, v.57)

52. Air (soprano) – "If God exist for the states, who tin can exist against us?" (Romans 8, five. 31); "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God'south elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen once again, who is at the correct hand of God, who makes intercession for united states of america." (Romans 8, vv.33–34)

53. Chorus – "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us to God past his claret, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. Approving, and honour, glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever." (Revelation 5, vv.12–14) "Amen."

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