In a message dated 12/3/2001 11:36:25 AM Eastern Standard Time,
leskayc@a... writes:
> "words selected from Holy Scripture by Charles
> Jennens." Now I know Handel did not write this in English, but are the
> scripture passages that we sing the same ones that Handel used? Or am I
> totally confused and did he only write this music and someone else put the
> words to it?
Jennens wrote the libretto (in English) and then Handel set it to music.
Lynda Lacy, Soprano
Vocal Music, Hilton Head Preparatory School
Hilton Head Island, SC
"Let your voice serve the music, and not the other way around." - B. R.
Henson
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