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SYMPHONY (GRAVE-ALLEGRO MODERATO)

ACCOPAGNATO (TENOR) COMFORT YE MY PEOPLE

ARIA (TENOR ) EV'RY VALLEY SHALL BE EXALTED

CHORUS: AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHALL BE REVEALED

ACCOMPAGNATO (BASS): THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS

ARIA (BASS): BUT WHO MAY ABIDE THE DAY OF HIS COMING

CHORUS: AND HE SHALL PURIFY

ARIA / RECITATIVE (CONTRALTO): BE HOLD A VIRGIN SHALL BE CONCEIVE

CHORUS:O THOU THAT TELLESTGOOD TIDINGS

ACCOMPAGNATO (BASS): FOR BEHOLD, DARKNESS SHALL COVER

ARIA (BASS): THE PEOPLE THAT WALKED IN DARKNESS

CHORUS: FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN

PIFA (PASTORAL SYMPHONY/ HIRTENMUSIK / PASTORALE /SINFONIA PASTORAL)

RECITATIVE (SOPRANO): THERE WERE SHEPHERDS ABIDING INTHE FIELDS

CHORUS: GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST

ARIA (SOPRANO): REJOICE GREATLY, O DAUGHTER OF ZION

DEUT / RECITATIVE (CONTRALTO): THEN SHALL THE EYES OF THE BLIND

CHORUS: HIS YOKE EASY, HIS BURTHEN IS LIGHT

CHORUS: BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD

CHORUS: SURELY HE HAS BORNE OUR GRIEFS

CHORUS: AND WITH HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED

CHORUS: ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE ASTRAY

ACCOMPAGNATO (TENOR) : ALL THEY THAT SEE HIM

CHORUS: HE TRUSTED IN GOD

ACCOMPAGNATO (TENOR): THY REBUKE HATH BROKEN HIS HEART

ARIOSO (TENOR) BEHOLD, AND SEE IF THERE BE ANY SORROW

ARIA / ACCOMPAGNATO (TENOR): HE WAS CUT OFF OUT OF THE LAND

CHORUS: LIFT UP YOUR HEADS, O YE GATES

CHORUS / RECITATIVE (TENOR): UNTO WHICH OF THE ANGELS

ARIA (CONTRALTO)THOU ARE GONE UP ON HIGH

CHORUS: THE LORD GAVE THE WORD

ARIA (SOPRANO): HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET

ARIOSO (TENOR): THEIR SOUND IS GONE OUT

ARIA (BASS): WHY DO THE NATION SO FURIOUSLY RAGE

CHORUS : LET US BREAK THEIR BONDS ASUNDER

ARIA / RECITATIVE (TENOR): HE THAT DWELLETH IN HEAVEN

CHORUS: HALLELUJAH

ARIA (SOPRANO): I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH

CHORUS: SINCE BY MAN CAME DEATH

ARIA / ACCOMPAGNATO (BASS): BEHOLD I TELL YOU A MYSTERY

DEUT / CHORUS / RECITATIVE (CONTRALTO): THEN SHALL BE BROUGHT TO PASS

ARIA (SOPRANO): IF GOD BE FOR US

CHORUS: WORTHYIS THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN

CHORUS: AMEN