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: Sacred, Oratorio

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:

Free choir training aids for this work are available at Choralia.
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63 (George Frideric Handel) at the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
Full-text libretto at Opera.Stanford.edu
View the Wikipedia article on Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63 (George Frideric Handel).
Volume 1 of Channon's Thesis – Volume 2

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 text

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

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 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

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63 (George Frideric Handel)

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