“Handel was unmistakably attracted to the polyphonic practices of the Italians, far freer than those of the Germans. The type of polyphony Legrenzi, Bassani, Vitali, and others practiced towards the end of the 17th century was light, fluent, unforced, vocal in origin and spirit even when idiomatically instrumental. And of course the wonderfully balanced, smooth, and flexible counterpoint of of Corelli never faded from his memory.”
- Paul Henry Lang
Happy Birthday Handel…
i am absolutely in love with this piece of music. the basses entrance with the sicut erat text is just so good. i have no idea how i never heard about this thing.
The nifty thing about that passage is that Handel is illustrating the words “sicut erat in principio” (“as it was in the beginning”) by quoting a theme from the first movement of the work.
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hotankles reblogged this from bwv1080 and added:
FUUUUHCK. i didn’t even notice that. i thought it was strange that he brought in that text so early. ugh.
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The nifty thing about that passage is that Handel is illustrating the words “sicut erat in principio” (“as it was in the...
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love with this piece...basses entrance with the sicut erat text is just so good. i have no...
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