From Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62, Part I
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
e minor |
Meter |
4/4 |
Tempo |
(no tempo) → adagio → a tempo |
Length |
54 measures |
English text |
|---|
Bass |
Why do the gentiles tumult, |
And the nations muse a vain thing, |
The kings of the earth upstand with pow’r, |
And princes in their congregations |
Lay deep their plots throughout each land |
Against the Lord and His Anointed? |
Opera Stanford |
“After the poetry of John Milton and Edmund Spenser.
The work was written in the midst of the Jacobite rising of 1745–1746.” Wikipedia
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