The Hallelujah Chorus of Handel's Messiah is one of the
most well known choruses in moderntimes ? though mostly
for the opening motif which permeates the entire
chorus. It comes at the endof the second part of the
Messiah, when there is a large-scale realisation of the
coming of the Lord,to which all the population, which
are always spoken for by Chorus numbers, who declare:
'Hallelujah, for the Lord God omnipotens reigneth:The
Kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our
Lord and of...(+)
The Hallelujah Chorus of Handel's Messiah is one of the
most well known choruses in moderntimes ? though mostly
for the opening motif which permeates the entire
chorus. It comes at the endof the second part of the
Messiah, when there is a large-scale realisation of the
coming of the Lord,to which all the population, which
are always spoken for by Chorus numbers, who declare:
'Hallelujah, for the Lord God omnipotens reigneth:The
Kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our
Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and
ever, Hallelujah'