G F Handel

Belshazzar - Part 1

Part 2 is on the next page,
Part 3 the page after that.

The Files for this Work were originally prepared using a very old Novello Score - the G A MacFarren Original Octavo edition. There is a much more recent Edition - the D Burrows 1993 one. This contains most of the pieces from the MacFarren Score, but re-numbered (some have been "deleted"), but also contains in Appendix One some alternative and additional pieces composed by Handel after the first few Performances, as well as, in Appendix Two, a number of pieces deleted by Handel before the first few Performance (some of these are in the MacFarren version). I am gradually modifying the Files so they more closely resemble the Burrows version; they will be uploaded when this modification is finished.

Here is a "clickable" Table of the available Midi Files for this Work:-

Belshazzar - Part 1
UNemphasized	Soprano	Alto	Tenor	Bass
1: Overture	None	None	None	None
2: Vain fluctuating state	None	None	None	None
3: Thou God most high	None	None	None	None
4: The fate of Babylon	None	None	None	None
5: Lament not thus	None	None	None	None
6: Behold, by Persia's hero made
7: Well may they laugh	None	None	None	None
8: O memory!	None	None	None	None
9: Oppress'd with never-ceasing grief	None	None	None	None
10: Dry those unavailing tears	None	None	None	None
11: Be comforted	None	None	None	None
12: Methought as on the banks	None	None	None	None
13: Now tell me Gobrias	None	None	None	None
14: Behold the monstrous beast	None	None	None	None
15: Can you then think	None	None	None	None
16: Great God, who yet	None	None	None	None
17: My friends, be confident	None	None	None	None
18: All empires upon God
19: O sacred oracles	None	None	None	None
20: Rejoice, my countrymen	None	None	None	None
20a: For long ago	None	None	None	None
20b: Thus saith the Lord	None	None	None	None
21: Sing, O ye heavens
22: Let festal joy	None	None	None	None
23: For you, my friends	None	None	None	None
24: The leafy honours	None	None	None	None
25: It is the custom	None	None	None	None
26: Recall, O King	Sop 1 Sop 2		Ten 1 Ten 2
27: They tell you true	None	None	None	None
28: O, dearer than my life	None	None	None	None
29: By slow degrees	Sop 1 Sop 2		Ten 2 Ten 2

That's the end of Part 1. Part 2 is on the next page
Part 3 is on the page following that.