Deborah, HWV 51
HWV
Sheet music
Sheet music
· public domain
· 12 editions
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Composed
1733-02-21 (end date)
First published
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Period
Baroque
Catalogue
HWV
Dedication
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Movements
3
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Movements
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3
acts:; Act 1 Scene 1: Mount Ephraim (Deborah, Barak, Israelitish Priests, People) :1. Overture :2. Double Chorus: Immortal Lord of earth and skies :3. Recitative: O Barak, favour'd of the skies (Deborah, Barak) :4. Duet: Where do thy ardours raise me? (Barak, Deborah) :5. Chorus: Forbear thy doubts! :6. Recitative: Since Heav'n has thus his will express'd (Barak) :7. Soloists and Chorus: For ever to the voice of pray'r :8. Recitative: By that adorable decree (Deborah) :9. Double Chorus: O hear thy lowly servants' pray'r :10. Recitative: Ye sons of Israel, cease your tears (Deborah) :11. Chorus: O blast, with thy tremendous brow :12. Recitative: To whomsoe'er his fate the tyrant owes :13. Aria: How lovely is the blooming fair (Barak) Scene 2: Kedesh Napthali :14. Recitative: O Deborah! where'er I turn my eyes (Jael, Deborah) :15. Aria: Choir of angles, all around thee (Deborah) :16. Recitative: My transports are too great to tell (Jael) :17. Aria: To joy he brightens my despair (Jael) Scene 3: Kedesh (Abinoam, Barak, Israelites) :18. Recitative: Barak, my son, the joyful sound (Abinoam) :19. Aria: Awake the ardour of they breast (Abinoam) :20. Recitative: I go where Heav'n and duty call (Barak) :21. Aria: All danger disdaining, for battle I glow (Barak) :22. Chorus: Let thy deeds be glorious Scene 4: Mount Tabor (Deborah, Barak, Israelites, Herald) :23. Recitative: My charge is to declare (Herald, Barak, Deborah) :24. Chorus: Despair all around them :25. Chorus: Allelujah!; Act 2 Scene: Mount Tabor (Deborah, Barak, Abinoam, Israelites) :26. Chorus: See, the proud chief advances now :27. Recitative: That here rebellious arms I see (Sisera) :28. Aria: At my feet extended low (Sisera) :29. Recitative: Go frown, Barbarian, where thou art fear'd (Deborah) :30. Aria: In Jehovah's awful sight (Deborah) :31. Recitative: Yes, how your God in wonders can excel (Sisera) :32. Aria: Whilst you boast the wondrous story (Sisera) :33. Aira: Impious mortal, cease to brave us (Barak) :34. Recitative: Behold the nations all around (Chief Priest of Baal) :35. Chorus: O Baal, Monarch of the skies (Priests of Baal) :36. Recitative: No more, ye infidels (Chief Priest of the Israelites) :37. Double Chorus: Load of Eternity (Israelites) :38. Chorus: Plead thy just cause :39. Recitative: By his great Name (Deborah, Sisera) :40. Soloists and Double Chorus: All your boast will end in woe ::(Deborah, Sisera, Priest of Baal, Baal's Priests, Israelites) :41. Recitative: Great Prophetess, my soul's on fire (Barak) :42. Aria: In the battle, fame pursuing (Barak) :43. Recitative: Thy ardours warm the winter of my age (Abinoam) :44. Aria: Swift inundation of desolation (Abinoam) :45. Recitative: O Judah, with what joy I see (Isrealitish Woman) :46. Aria: No more disconsolate I'll mourn (Israelitish Woman) :47. Recitative: Now, Jael, to thy tent retire (Deborah) :48. Aria: O the pleasure my soul is possessing (Jael) :49. Recitative: Barak, we now to battle go (Deborah) :50. Duet: Smiling freedom, lovely guest (Deborah. Barak) :51. Chorus: The great King of Kings will aid us to-day; Act 3 Scene: Kedesh :52. Chorus: Now the proud insulting foe (Israelites) :53. Recitative: The haughty foe whose pride to heav'n did soar (Israelitish Woman) :54. Aria: Now sweetly smiling peace descends (Israelitish Woman) :55. Recitative: My pray'rs are heard (Abinoam, Barak) :56. Aria: Tears, such as tender fathers shed (Abinoam) :57. Recitative: O Deborah, my fears are o'er (Jael) :58. Chorus: Doleful tidings, how ye sound (Priests of Baal) :59. Aria: Our fears are now for ever fled (Isrealitish Woman) :60. Recitative: I saw the tyrant breathless in her tent (Barak, Jael) :61. Aria: Tyrant, now no more we dread thee (Jael) :62. Recitative: If, Jael, I aright divine (Deborah) :63. Aria: The glorious sun shall cease to shed (Deborah) :64. Recitative: May Heav'n with kind profusion (Barak) :65. Low at her feet he bow'd, he fell (Barak) :66. Recitative: O great Jehovah! may thy foes thus perish (Deborah) :67. Double Chorus: Let our songs to heav'n ascend ::Chorus: O celebrate his sacred name ::Chorus: Allelujah
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