Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (George Frideric Handel)

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  • CPDL #10037:  Contents & notes-p14 [ Icon_pdf.gif] pp15-26 (#2 cont. - #7) [ Icon_pdf.gif] Section-3 [ Icon_pdf.gif] Section-4 [ Icon_pdf.gif] Section-5 [ Icon_pdf.gif] Section-6 [ Icon_pdf.gif] Section-7 [ Icon_pdf.gif] Section-8 [ Icon_pdf.gif] Icon_snd.gif
Editor: Michael Gibson (submitted 2006-01-29).   Score information: Letter    (each is 12 pages, 1.48, 1.38, 1.45, 1.43, 1.72, 1.45, 1.37, 1.75 Mbytes respectively) Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: 8 PDF Sections make up complete vocal score. MIDI files are zipped. Based on Joseph Barnby's SATB rearrangement of choruses.

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  • CPDL #17685:  Network.png recit: I Rage, I Melt, I Burn! & aria: O Ruddier than the Cherry
Contributor: David Newman (submitted 2008-07-23).   Score information: Letter, 7 pages, 303 kB    Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Edition in G Minor, piano reduction by Ebenezer Prout

General Information

Title: Acis and Galatea, HWV 49
Composer: George Frideric Handel

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
with Solo STTB
Soli:

Galatea - soprano
Acis - tenor
Damon - tenor (treble in the 1718 version)
Polyphemus - bass
Coridon - soprano (some versions only)

Genre: SecularOpera

Language: English
Instruments: Orchestra

Published:

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Original text and translations

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Recit:
I rage, I rage, I melt, I burn!
The feeble god has stabbed me to the heart.
Thou trusty pine, prop of my god-like steps,
I lay thee by!
Bring me a hundred reeds of decent growth,
to make a pipe for my capacious mouth;
in soft enchanting accents
let me breathe sweet Galatea’s beauty, and my love.

Aria:
O ruddier than the cherry,
O sweeter than the berry,
O nymph more bright than moonshine night,
Like kidlings blithe and merry!

Ripe as the melting cluster,
No lily has such lustre;
Yet hard to tame as raging flame,
And fierce as storms that bluster!