{"id":406,"date":"2021-09-23T20:04:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T20:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/?p=406"},"modified":"2021-09-23T20:04:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T20:04:52","slug":"handels-messiah-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/2021\/09\/23\/handels-messiah-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Handel&#8217;s Messiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the Hallelujah Chorus. It is something I look forward to every time my church&#8217;s choir does their rendition of it. The music is amazing and gives a truly great message and moves me to reverence every time. Handel does a great job in this section of really diving into the words and connecting them to the music. The word hallelujah (or alleluia) means &#8220;God be praised&#8221;. The way Handel has this written, as a <em>f<\/em><em>orte<\/em> dynamic, truly shows praise. The chorus goes on to say in a\u00a0<em>piano, &#8220;<\/em>The Lord God Omnipotent Reigneth&#8221;, but immediately switches back to that\u00a0<em>forte<\/em>. The later verses talk about God&#8217;s kingly aspects and they use coronets or trumpets, instruments that were commonly used in kings&#8217; professionals. This gives the image of a king, and as I like to think, a kindly king. He does this by putting the whole section in a major key with whole-step harmonies to give a truly happy tone. This section shows Handel&#8217;s music-making abilities the best out of any of the parts of the Messiah, despite writing the other parts similarly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the Hallelujah Chorus. It is something I look forward to every time my church&#8217;s choir does their rendition of it. The music is amazing and gives a truly great message and moves me to reverence every time. Handel does a great job in this section of really diving into the words and connecting&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/2021\/09\/23\/handels-messiah-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Handel&#8217;s Messiah<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9197364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9197364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}