Vocal Music Instrumentation Index
Handel oratorios

8. The praise of Bacchus

From Alexander’s Feast, HWV 75, Part I

Composer
George Frideric Handel
Key
B flat major → F major
Meter
4/4
Length
10 measures

About the text

  • Author: Newburgh Hamilton

Instrumentation

  • Tenore
  • Continuo: Violoncello + Violone

Notes

There is also a German translation by Ramler

Resources

Aria: With ravish’d ears
Aria: Bacchus ever fair...
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