G F Handel

Theodora

This page is Part 1
Part 2 is on the next page,
Part 3 the page after that.

You can freely and lawfully download a printable score for this Work from IMSLP, the Petrucci Music Library - though it may not be exactly the same as the one used to make the Midi Files below, and it probably won't be as good as a proper paid-for engraved and printed score.

There is a competent but restrained performance of this Work by various soloists, the Glyndebourne Chorus, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, with William Christie, conductor, on YouTube starting here.
There is another, rather more exuberant, performance here with a much bigger Chorus - the Salzburger BachChor - and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra conducted by Ivor Bolton.

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

Theodora - Part 1
UNemphasized	Soprano	Alto	Tenor	Bass
PART ONE 1: Ouverture, . . Trio, . . Courante	None	None	None	None
Scene 1 2a: 'Tis Diocletion's natal day	None	None	None	None
2b: Go, my faithful soldier	None	None	None	None
3: And draw a blessing down
4: Vouchsafe, dread Sir	None	None	None	None
5: Racks, gibbets, sword and fire	None	None	None	None
6: For ever thus stand fix'd the doom
Scene 2 7: Most cruel edict	None	None	None	None
7b: The raptur'd soul	None	None	None	None
8: I know thy virtues	None	None	None	None
8b: Descend, kind Pity	None	None	None	None
Scene 3 9: Though hard, my friends	None	None	None	None
9b: Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu!	None	None	None	None
10: O bright example	None	None	None	None
10b: Bane of virtue	None	None	None	None
11: Come, mighty Father
Scene 4 12: Fly. Fly, my brethren	None	None	None	None
13: As with rosy steps the morn	None	None	None	None
14: All pow'r in Heav'n above
Scene 5 15: Mistaken wretches	None	None	None	None
15b: Dread the fruits of Christian folly	None	None	None	None
16: Deluded mortal!	None	None	None	None
17: O worse than death indeed!	None	None	None	None
17b: Angels, ever bright and fair	None	None	None	None
Scene 6 18: Unhappy, happy crew	None	None	None	None
18b: Kind Heaven, if virtue be thy care	None	None	None	None
Scene 7 19: O Love, how great thy pow'r!	None	None	None	None
20: Go, gen'rous, pious youth

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

That's the end of the Work.

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