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Nabal (Part 1)

Part 2 is on the next page,
Part 3 the page after that.

As noted in Wikipedia, "Nabal" (no HWV number) is an oratorio pastiche. It was compiled from the works of Handel in 1764 by John Christopher Smith. It was first performed on 16 March 1764 at Covent Garden, London. The recitatives are presumably the work of Smith, while the arias and choruses are largely borrowed from Handel's operas, oratorios, anthems and cantatas.

There is no published digital score, though a scanned hand-written one exists, from which a modern orchestral score was prepared by Joachim Carlos Martini for a recording by Junge Kantorei and the Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra, conducted by Martini. It was from a copy of this Score that the Midi Files below were made. Unfortunately, many of the sections in the Score, particularly the Recitatives, provided only a Bass Continuo line as the "backing", and I'm not clever enough to "realise" it in standard notation.

If you know of a Website from which can freely and lawfully be downloaded a printable Vocal score for this Work, please let me know the address.

The performance of this Work by Junge Kantorei is on YouTube here. Detailed comments about the Work, and about the Junge Kantorei performance, are provided here.

Here is a "clickable" Table of the available Midi Files for this Work.

Nabal
UNemphasized Soprano 1 Soprano 2  Alto  Tenor 1 Tenor 2  Bass 
 1: Symphonia None None None None None None
 2: Here in the Wilderness of Paran None None None None None None
 3: The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance yes As 1 yes yes As 1 yes
 4: Have mercy on us, O Lord. None None None None None None
 5: Food they ask'd and all around None None None None None None
 6: No doubt Omnipotence is still the same None None None None None None
 7: The Lord, our Guide, whom we revere None None None None None None
 8: The Lord, our Guide, come what may yes As 1 yes yes As 1 yes
 9: How hard the Woman's Fate None None None None None None
10: Free from Discord, vile confusion None None None None None None
11: Avaunt, unpleasing wretch None None None None None None
12: Still fill the bowl None None None None None None
13a: Minuet None None None None None None
13b: Gavotte None None None None None None
13c: Siciliano None None None None None None
13: Sheep None None None None None None
14: Gay and light as yonder sheep yes As 1 yes yes As 1 yes
15: The Carmel's annual holiday None None None None None None
16: Happy, while we reign in pleasure yes yes yes yes As 1 yes

That's the end of Part 1. Part 2 is on the next page
Part 3 is on the page following that.

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Files originally uploaded in Feb/22.