Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63 (George Frideric Handel)

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35-36. Hail, Judea, happy land

  • (Posted 2015-01-04)  CPDL #34109:         
Editor: Robert Bolyard (submitted 2015-01-04).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 157 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: for SATB and Solo SA. Includes a keyboard version of the original accompaniment.

58. See the conquering hero comes (Seht, er kommt mit Preis gekrönt)

  • (Posted 1999-12-15)  CPDL #00641:      (Finale 1998)
Editor: Vladimir Ursic Jr. (submitted 1999-12-15).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 64 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: for SSA.SATB a cappella. German version
  • (Posted 2015-05-02)  CPDL #35271:    - Soprano1:   Soprano2:   Alto:   Tenor:   Bass:    
Editor: Helene Morleghem (submitted 2015-05-02).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 74 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: arrangement for 2 soprani voices, and alto (parts A & B of the score), and tenor, bass for part C.

60. Sing unto God

  • (Posted 2004-06-17)  CPDL #07213:     
Editor: Michael Gibson (submitted 2004-06-17).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 355 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: for SATB and Solo AT. Includes a keyboard version of the original accompaniment.

68. Hallelujah, Amen

  • (Posted 2022-10-22)  CPDL #71237:       
Editor: Éric Leroy (submitted 2022-10-22).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 195 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Version française "Alléluia, loué soit Dieu", version A, de Félix Raugel pour la fête du Christ Roi
  • (Posted 2022-10-14)  CPDL #71148:       
Editor: Éric Leroy (submitted 2022-10-14).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 435 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Version française "Alléluia, loué soit Dieu", version B, de Félix Raugel pour la fête du Christ Roi
  • (Posted 2001-02-28)  CPDL #02128:        (Finale 2001)
Editor: Terry Sanford (submitted 2001-02-28).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 141 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: for SATB. Includes a keyboard version of the original accompaniment.
  • Training aids:   Soprano:    Alto:    Tenor:    Bass:  
Contributor: Helene Morleghem (submitted 2015-04-16).   Copyright: CPDL

General Information

Title: Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63
Composer: George Frideric Handel
Lyricist: Thomas Morell

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SacredOratorio

Language: English
Instruments: Orchestra

Composed 1746
First published: 1769 by William Randall in London
Description: An oratorio of 68 movements (Harris 1989), first performed 1747 in London. (IMSLP lists 41 movements.) Libretto based on the book of I Maccabees, first published in 1747.

External websites:

References:

  • Channon, Merlin George Charles. 1995. Judas Maccabaeus, Handel's victory oratorio of 1747, and its development in London performances until 1774. Ph. D. Thesis, The Open University, 2 volumes.
  • Harris, Ellen T., Editor. 1989. The librettos of Handel's operas: a collection of seventy librettos documenting Handel's operatic career. New York: Garland, 1989. 13 volumes.

List of movements

First number from the Novello vocal score; number in parenthesis from Channon 1995

   PART I

  • 1(1). Overture:
  • 2(2). Chorus: Mourn, ye afflicted children
  • 3(3). Recitative: Well, Brethren, may your Sorrows flow
  • Recitative: Daughters, let your distressful cries
  • 4(4). Duet: From this dread scene, these adverse powers
  • 5(5). Chorus: For Sion lamentation make
  • 6(6). Recitative: Nor vain is all this storm of grief
  • 7(7). Air: Pious orgies, pious airs
  • 8(8). Chorus: O Father, whose almighty power
  • 9(9). Recitative: I feel, I feel this Deity within
  • 10(10). Air: Arm, arm, ye brave
  • 11. Chorus: We come, we come in bright array
  • (11A). The March
  • 12(12). Recitative: Tis well, my friends
  • 13(13). Air: Call forth my powers, my soul
  • 14(14). Recitative: To heaven's almighty King we kneel
  • 15(15). Air: O liberty
  • 16(16). Air: Come, ever-smiling liberty
  • 17(17). Recitative: These noble views, O Judas
  • 18(18). Air: Tis liberty, dear liberty alone
  • 19(19). Duet: Come, ever-smiling liberty
  • 20(20). Chorus: Lead on, lead on, Judah disdains
  • 21(21). Recitative: So willed my zealous father
  • Recitative: We come, O see, thy sons prepare
  • 22(22). Semi-Chorus: Disdainful of danger, we'll rush on the foe
  • 23(23). Recitative: Ambition! If e'er honor was thine aim
  • 24(24). Air: No unhallowed desire
  • (25). Recitative: By that adorable
  • (26). Air: Choir of angels
  • (27). Recitative: O Judas
  • (28). Air: Endless fame
  • (29). Air: May balmy peace
  • (30). Air: Far brighter
  • 25(31). Recitative: Haste we
  • 26(32). Chorus: Hear us, O Lord, on thee thy servants call

   PART II

  • 27(33). Chorus: Fallen is the foe
  • (11B). The March
  • (34). Air: In Jehovah's awful st
  • 28(35). Recitative: Victorious hero! Fame shall tell
  • 29(36). Air: So rapid thy course is
  • 30(37). Recitative: Well may we hope
  • (38). Air: Flowing joys
  • 31(39). Air: Sion now
  • 32. Duet: Tune your harps
  • (40). Recitative: Well may we hope
  • (41). Air: Flowing joys
  • 33(42). Recitative: O let eternal honours crown his name
  • 34(43). Air: From mighty kings he took the spoil
  • 35(44). Duet: Hail, hail Judea, happy land
  • 36. Chorus: Hail, hail Judea, happy land
  • 37(45). Recitative: Thanks to my brethren
  • 38(46). Air: How vain is man, who boasts in fight
  • (47). Recitative: Sweet are thy words
  • (48). Air: Great in wisdom
  • (49). Recitative: Thus pleased
  • (50). Air: No more discons.
  • 39(51). Recitative: O Judas, O my brethren
  • 40(52). Air: Ah! Wretched, wretched Israel
  • 41. Chorus: Ah! Wretched, wretched Israel
  • 42(53). Recitative: Be comforted. Not think these plagues
  • 43(54). Air: The Lord worketh wonders
  • 44(55). Recitative: My arms! Against this Gorgias I will go
  • 45(56). Air: Sound an alarm, Your silver trumpets sound
  • 46. Chorus: We hear, we hear the pleasing dreadful call
  • 47(57). Recitative: Enough. To heaven we leave the rest
  • 48(58). Air: With pious hearts, and brave as pious
  • 49(59). Recitative: Ye worshippers of God
  • 50(60). Recitative: No more in Sion let the virgin throng
  • 51(61). Duet: O never, never bow we down
  • 52. Chorus: We never, never will bow down

   PART III

  • 53(62). Air: Father of Heaven, from thy eternal throne
  • 54(63). Recitative: See, see yon flames that from the altar broke
  • 55(64). Recitative: O grant it, heaven, that our long woes may cease
  • 56(65). Air: So shall the lute and harp awake
  • 57(66). Air: From Capharselama, on eagle wings I fly
  • (67). Air: Powerful gods
  • (68). Air: All his mercies
  • (69). Recitative: Yet more
  • (70). Air: Happy, O
  • (71). Recitative: But lo!
  • 58(72). Chorus: See the conquering
  • Chorus: See the god-like youth advance
  • Chorus: See the conquering hero comes
  • 59(11C). The March
  • 60(73). Chorus: Sing unto God, and high affections raise
  • 61(74). Recitative: Sweet flow the strains that strike my feasted ear
  • 62(75). Air: With honor let desert be crowned
  • (76). Recitative: And may this
  • (77). Air: All his mercies
  • 63(78). Air: Peace to my countrymen
  • (79). Air: O! Had I Jubal's
  • 64(80). Chorus: To our great God be all the honour given
  • 65(81). Recitative: Again to earth let gratitude descend
  • (82). Air: O lovely peace, with plenty crowned
  • 66(83). Duet: O lovely peace, with plenty crowned
  • 67(84). Air: Rejoice, O Judah, and in songs divine
  • 68. Chorus: Hallelujah! Amen

Original text and translations

68. Hallelujah, Amen

English.png English text

Hallelujah, Amen.
O Judah, rejoice,
in songs divine,
With Cherubim and Seraphim
harmonious join.
(1769)

French.png French text
Version A

Alléluia, amen, amen, alléluia, amen.
Loué soit Dieu !
Qui règne aux cieux, chantons sa gloire,
Loué soit Dieu !
Que son flambeau divin nous guide et nous éclaire,
Et que son nom résonne dans nos chants joyeux !
Alléluia, amen, amen, alléluia, amen.
A jamais loué, loué soit Dieu.
Alléluia, amen, amen, alléluia, amen. Amen.
Alléluia. Amen.
by Félix Raugel

French.png French text
Version B

Alléluia, alléluia, alléluia, Amen.
Loué soit Dieu !
Il règne dans les cieux ; qu’il règne sur la terre !
Loué soit Dieu !
Que son flambeau divin nous guide et nous éclaire,
Et que son nom résonne dans nos chants joyeux !
Alléluia, alléluia, alléluia, Amen.
Loué soit Dieu ! Loué soit Dieu !
Alléluia, alléluia, alléluia, Amen.
Alléluia. Amen.
by Félix Raugel