Nisi Dominus (George Frederic Handel)

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Editor: Philip Legge (added 2000-09-22).   Full Score information: A4, 16 pages, 348 KB   Copyright: 2000 Philip Legge
Edition notes: The source (and consequently this edition) lacks the final Gloria Patri for two orchestras and double choir. MIDI files hosted by Classical Music Archives site. Practice score available in Scorch format in addition to Sibelius source file.
Errata: None currently known.

General Information

Title: Nisi Dominus
Composer: George Frideric Handel

Number of voices: 5vv  Voicing: SSATB choir and soloists
Genre: Sacred, Motets
Catalogue Number: HWV 238
Language: Latin
Instruments: strings: 2 violins, 2 violas, violoncello, bass; and keyboard continuo
Source: Handel Complete Works, Volume 38, published 1872, edited by Friedrich Chrysander.

Description: Latin psalm setting composed in Rome, July 1707.

External websites: PML Music Editions

Movements

  1. Nisi Dominus (SSATB solos and chorus)
  2. Vanum est vobis (T solo)
  3. Cum dederit dilectis suis (A solo)
  4. Sicut sagittæ (B solo)
  5. Beatus vir (T solo)
  6. Gloria Patri (omitted in source; unavailable)

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 127.

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