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SOLOMON (Handel)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel (b. Halle, Germany, 1685; d. London, England, 1759) became a musician and composer despite objections from his father, who wanted him to become a lawyer. Handel studied music with Zachau, organist at the Halle Cathedral, and became an accomplished violinist and keyboard performer. He traveled and studied in Italy for some time and then settled permanently in England in 1713. Although he wrote a large number of instrumental works, he is known mainly for his Italian operas, oratorios (including Messiah, 1741), various anthems for church and royal festivities, and organ concertos, which he interpolated into his oratorio performances. He composed only three hymn tunes, one of which (GOPSAL) still appears in some modern hy… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: SOLOMON (Handel)
Composer: George Frideric Handel
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Incipit: 13455 66556 57125
Key: E Major
Source: "Solomon." 1748
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • Hymn Tunes in Lower Keys: The Book to Grab When the Congregation Complains that the Hymns are Too High!
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2011) pp. 263
  • The Really Big Descant Book - Full Music Edition: 250 Settings to Raise the Roof by the World's Finest Church Music Composers
    Composer/Editor June Nixon
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2009) pp. 204
  • The Ultimate Finishing Touch: Last-verse Arrangements of Well-loved Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor Harrison Oxley
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2000) pp. 132
  • More Last Verses: Another Two Hundred Varied Hymn Tune Harmonies
    Composer/Editor Noel Rawsthorne
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1996) pp. 146

Organ Solo

  • Organ Miniatures: 200 Short Improvisations on Familiar Hymn Tunes
    Composer/Editor June Nixon
    Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1999) pp. 132

Media

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #1316
  • Four-part harmony, full-score (PDF, NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #2911
Text: I Love the Lord, He Heard My Voice
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)

Instances

Instances (1 - 9 of 9)
Text

Ancient and Modern #730b

Anglican Hymns Old and New (Rev. and Enl.) #517a

Text

Christadelphian Hymn Book #17

ScoreAudio

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #1316

TextPage Scan

Common Praise #524b

TextPage Scan

Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #458b

Audio

Small Church Music #1566

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #2911

TextPage Scan

The New English Hymnal #73a

Include 27 pre-1979 instances
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