Minuet from Berenice – Handel
Choir a capella • Choir • Choir with Organ or Piano • Solo singer with Organ or Piano • Solo Instrument with Organ or Piano • Organ alone • All • Civil Ceremony • Before the Ceremony • Signing the Register
A gentle minuet.
Title
Minuet (from the opera Berenice) by George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1757)
From the opera, Berenice, regina d'Egitto (Berenice, Queen of Egypt) (HWV 38) by Handel premiered in London in 1737
Duration
approx 2 minutes.
Forces required
Organ
OR
Organ and trumpet
Source
Organ arrangement by Patrick Williams, 1951, in The Oxford Book of Wedding Music, 1991.
Minuet (from the opera Berenice) by George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1757)
From the opera, Berenice, regina d'Egitto (Berenice, Queen of Egypt) (HWV 38) by Handel premiered in London in 1737
Duration
approx 2 minutes.
Forces required
Organ
OR
Organ and trumpet
Source
Organ arrangement by Patrick Williams, 1951, in The Oxford Book of Wedding Music, 1991.
Text
Although originally an instrumental piece, this song has been texted with the words of an evening hymn "Now on land and sea descending" that are not wedding-appropriate. New words, needed, please! 8.7.8.7.8.7.8.7
Although originally an instrumental piece, this song has been texted with the words of an evening hymn "Now on land and sea descending" that are not wedding-appropriate. New words, needed, please! 8.7.8.7.8.7.8.7