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Family Compositae
The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.
Tribe Lactuceae
The Lactuceae are a tribe of closely related genera of the sunflower family that are easily recognized because the flowering heads are composed of wholly of ligulate florets that are usually 5-lobed. Another very distinguishing feature is the milky sap . Although not apparent without magnification, the pollen is distinctive in that the spines are more or less restricted to discrete ridges or flanges on the surface of the grain. In other members of the family the spines are distributed more or less evenly over the surface of the pollen grain . The pappus usually consists of scales or stiff hairs . -- Gerald D. Carr.
Genus Taraxacum
, (10-) 30-400(-600+ in fruit) cm (sexual or apomictic) ; taprooted or with branched caudices. Stems (1-10+) erect
or ascending
, scapiform
), simple
(hollow), glabrous
or villous
to heads
. Leaves basal (in rosettes, erect or patent
to nearly horizontal) ; petiolate
or sessile; blades
to obovate
or oblanceolate
to linear-oblanceolate, runcinate or lyrate (bases
cuneate to ± attenuate), margins
to dentate
or pinnately lobed
(apices rounded
or obtuse
to acute or acuminate, faces
glabrous or glabrate
to sparsely villous, pilose
, or villosulous
) . Heads borne singly. Calyculi persistent
, of (6-) 8-18(-20) broadly ovate
to lanceolate bractlets
in (1-) 2-3 series, distinct
before flowering, recurved to spreading
or reflexed
in fruit), unequal (shorter than phyllaries, margins scarious
, ciliate
or not, apices corniculate, callous
, or neither) . Involucres campanulate
to cylindro-campanulate or urceolate
to cylindric
, 8-40 mm diam. Phyllaries 7-25 in 2(-3) series, weakly coherent proximally in buds (interlocking folded margins), distinct later, erect (sometimes slightly spreading) in flower, closing at fruit maturation, reflexed at dispersal
(exposing globes of cypselae with fully spread
pappi), ± equal, herbaceous, glabrous; inner lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, margins scarious, ciliate or not, apices acuminate, sometimes corniculate
, callous, or flat. Receptacles ± flat, epaleate. Florets (15-) 20-150; corollas yellow, sometimes greenish, rarely cream or pale
pink [white], often purplish- or gray-striped abaxially (anthers
yellow or yellow-cream, sometimes darker; styles yellow or greenish, sometimes grayish to blackish) . Cypselae straw-colored to olive, brown, or red to pale or dark gray, bodies oblanceoloid to obovoid
, ± flattened (distally ± swollen, forming discrete, conic, or terete "cones" supporting beaks
[without cones]), beaked
[beakless], ribs
4-12(-15), faces muricate
(at least distally) [nearly smooth
], glabrous; pappi persistent, of 50-105+ distinct, white to cream-colored or yellowish to sordid
, equal, barbellulate
in 1 series. x = 8.
Species 60(-2000) : North America, South America, Eurasia
; worldwide weeds
, Taraxacum officinale, T. erythrospermum) .
The type of the genus, Taraxacum officinale, is conserved. This name
is linked to the (very general) description
of Leontodon taraxacum Linnaeus. A. J. Richards (1985) typified T. officinale, via L. taraxacum, on a specimen that is apparently referable to T. campylodes Haglund, a microspecies of sect. Crocea restricted
to Lapland, which thus became the basis of sect. Taraxacum. J. Kirschner and J. Åtepánek (1987) underlined that this typification of T. officinale does not reflect usage
of the name, which raises considerable ambiguity as to its application
, because Richards essentially defined a new content for it. The species usually referred to as T. officinale must now be referred to sect. Ruderalia (Kirschner and Åtepánek) ; no name was proposed that would correspond closely with the species currently called T. officinale. A proposal
to conserve the name T. officinale with a neotype
that would preserve its common usage for this widespread entity
has been suggested; this has yet to be discussed fully.
Taraxacum Zinn (1757) (= Leontodon Linnaeus) is a rejected name
The genus has been monographed by H. Handel-Mazzetti (1907) and by R. Doll (1974) . Infrageneric
has recently been reviewed by A. J. Richards (1985) and by J. Kirschner and J. tepánek (1987, 1997) . The European species were treated by Richards and P. D. Sell (1973) and much work has been done since; there is no overall treatment for Asia; Russian authors
have covered Siberia. The number of species in the genus depends on the disposition of agamic
microspecies within species complexes, which varies greatly among authors, particularly in Europe [e.g., A. A. Dudman and Richards (1997) recognized 105 species for Great Britain and Ireland]. North American
Taraxacum, particularly in the boreal and arctic
zones, has been investigated by numerous
researchers, many of whom incorporated new taxa described by H. Dahlstedt (1906) ; only works touching North America north of Mexico are mentioned here. Obviously, Scandinavian and Russian works also were significant (e.g., Dahlstedt; Doll 1977; M.
L. Fernald 1933; E. L. Greene 1901b; G. Haglund 1943, 1946, 1948, 1949; M. P. Porsild 1930; P. A. Rydberg 1901), but often in a manner limited geographically or taxonomically, and no complete
review exists. Most often, the taxonomy of the genus has been presented within the context of floras
(e.g., S. G. Aiken et al.
, http://www.mun.ca/biology/delta/arcticf/_ca/www/asta.htm, with excellent photographs of Arctic species; T. W. Böcher et al. 1978; A. Cronquist 1955, 1994; Fernald 1950; H. A. Gleason and A. Cronquist 1991; E. Hultén 1955, 1968; A. E. Porsild 1950b, 1957, 1964; A. E. Porsild and W. J. Cody 1980; H. J. Scoggan 19781979, part 4; Rydberg 1900c) . The result of all these efforts
has not been a clarification of the North American situation, but rather a taxonomy and nomenclature in utter confusion (Cronquist 1994) . The current
treatment does not solve all nomenclatural
and taxonomic
problems, many of which will depend for their ultimate
solution on work done in Europe.
I have adopted a broad definition
of Taraxacum species for North America, broader at least than what is usually seen in European treatments. For instance, the species most familiar to North Americans were introduced
from Europe (T. officinale and T. erythrospermum; see below for a justification of the use of these names), possibly several times, and represent variable agamic complexes, but this variation
appears continuous and multidimensional. There seems to be no utility for the users
in describing a multitude of narrowly defined microspecies. For the native
arctic and western alpine
species, the impact
of the Pleistocene
glaciations, which covered much of the territory now occupied by those species except for ice-free parts of Alaska and Yukon, must be considered. It is likely that most populations spread recently from southern or Beringian refugia
after the ice withdrew and that the number of species that migrated is restricted. Isolation
in the Rocky Mountains and adjacent
areas may explain some of the phenotypic diversity
, but not enough to warrant a large number of narrowly defined, endemic entities. The situation in eastern North America (Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland, and adjacent areas) may have been influenced by the amphi-Atlantic dispersal of some taxa. Again, given the small number of such species in the North American flora, all concentrated in that region, it is unlikely that the number of species actually present would reach the number that has been described for the area. Therefore, at the present time, delimitation
of readily distinguishable taxa appears more useful than trying to dissect finely the variation present into microspecies that would have little experimental validation.
Another reason for using broad species limits is provided by population genetics. For instance, in Europe, S. B
. J. Menken et al. (1995) showed that diploid and triploid members
of Taraxacum sect. Ruderalia are less genetically isolated than formerly supposed and form a cohesive unit
, because of the exchange of genetic material
between ploidy levels despite the fact that the latter are usually agamic. The molecular study of genetic variation by L. M. King (1993) in introduced asexual Taraxacum taxa in North America also shows the importance of hybridization to explain variation, in addition to mutations
, another important factor
(King and B. A. Schaal 1990) . M. T. Brock (2004) also documented gene exchange between the introduced agamic T. officinale and native diploid populations of T. ceratophorum in Colorado. This is cause for conservation
concern in areas where introduced dandelions, notably the common dandelion, invade populations of native species
, such as in the Gulf
of Saint Lawrence area or the western Cordilleras
. It is also possible that the prolific common dandelions not only genetically assimilate but also competitively displace native populations, which might be the case for some populations of T. laurentianum in western Newfoundland.
A. A. Dudman and A. J. Richards (1997) described some of the sources of phenotypic plasticity
(or drying artifacts
) in Taraxacum that may affect the identification (or delimitation) of species: juvenile and shaded leaves usually are less divided
than older, sun-exposed or stressed ones, and the terminal lobes
usually are smaller; some traits
described as characteristic of a species may occur on only some leaves of a rosette; ligule color may change in dried material
; cypsela size, though mostly consistent within species, may vary considerably within a head, the outer often being shorter; finally, cypsela color changes with maturity and insolation, and fades on specimens, and in some groups, the variation in color is such that this trait may lose its significance in delimiting entities. R. J. Taylor (1987) also emphasized the importance of phenotypic plasticity in weedy dandelion morphologic variation.
There is a spontaneous mutant
form of Taraxacum erythrospermum (called T. laevigatum forma scapifolium F. C.
Gates & S. F. Prince. in which one or more lobed and dentate leaves (or bracts), progressively reduced distally, are present on the scape or peduncle. Also, calyculus bracts are more or less modified to enlarged, lobed and dentate bracts, instead of the usual bractlets. The phyllaries appear unaffected. The form is genetically determined, as it bred true. This shows that scapes of dandelions are modified stems where leaf expression is repressed, and that calyculi are indeed distinct in origin
from the involucres and should be considered as a separate structure and not as an external series of the involucre, as is often done in descriptions.
Evolution and population biology in Taraxacum, notably with respect to breeding systems, apomixis, and variation, has been the object of numerous studies (e.g., J. C. M. den
Nijs and S. B. J. Menken 1994; J. Hughes and A. J. Richards 1988, 1989; L. M. King 1993; King and B. A. Schaal 1990; J. C. Lyman and N. C. Ellstrand 1998; M. Mogie and H. Ford 1988; Mogie and Richards 1983; Richards 1970, 1970b, 1973, 1989, 1996; O. T. Solbrig 1971; R. J. Taylor 1987) . Molecular phylogenetic
studies have not been effective so far in solving problems of relationships
within Taraxacum (e.g., J. Kirschner et al. 2003) .
Chromosome counts of North American Taraxacum species are few and mainly come from A. W. Johnson and J. G. Packer (1968), T. Mosquin and D. E. Hayley (1966), G. A. Mulligan (1984), and Packer and G. D. McPherson (1974) . I have not been able to examine all vouchers
, and it has been difficult sometimes to attribute
reports to species. The same problem exists with Russian chromosome number reports and I prefer not to include them here (see the website of S. G. Aiken et al. for such references) .
Taraxacum species have been used medicinally (mostly as a diuretic) and in alimentation (as greens and to make wine) ; they are particularly rich sources of vitamin C (E. Small and P. M. Catling 1999) .[1]
- Domain:
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
- Class:
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
- Giseke, 1792, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
- Tribe:
- Subtribe:
- Genus:
- F.H. Wiggers, 1780, nom. cons.
- Dandelion [Arabic to Persian talkh chakok, a bitter herb]
- Specific epithet:
- S.S.Kharkevich & Tzvelev
- Botanical name: - Taraxacum korjakense S.S.Kharkevich & Tzvelev
- Specific epithet:
- S.S.Kharkevich & Tzvelev
- Genus:
- F.H. Wiggers, 1780, nom. cons.
- Dandelion [Arabic to Persian talkh chakok, a bitter herb]
- Subtribe:
- Tribe:
- Subfamily:
- Family:
- Giseke, 1792, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Order:
- Lindley, 1833
- Superorder:
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Subclass:
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Class:
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subphylum:
- Phylum:
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subkingdom:
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Kingdom:
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
Similar Species
Members of the genus Taraxacum
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 30 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
T. balticum (Baltic Dandelion) · T. brachyglossum (Short-Tongue Dandelion) · T. californicum (California Dandelion) · T. carneocoloratum (Fleshy Dandelion) · T. decolorans (Chalkland Dandelion) · T. eriophorum (Woolbearing Dandelion) · T. euryphyllum (Spotted Dandelion) · T. hamatiforme (Leaf Dandelion) · T. hamatum (Meadow Dandelion) · T. intercedens (Marsh Dandelion) · T. isophyllum (Soot Dandelion) · T. japonicum (Japanese Dandelion) · T. laetum (Bright Dandelion) · T. laevigatum (Red-Seed Dandelion) · T. langeanum (Lange´s Dandelion) · T. litorale (Shore Dandelion) · T. lyratum (Alpine Dandelion) · T. marginatum (Fringed Dandelion) · T. nordstedtii (Nordstedt´s Dandelion) · T. obliquum (Dwarf Dandelion) · T. officinale (Bitterwort) · T. officinale ceratophorum (Fleshy Dandelion) · T. officinale officinale (Common Dandelion) · T. officinale var. tauricum (Lion´s-Tooth) · T. officinale vulgare (Blowball) · T. palustre (Marsh Dandelion) · T. pectinatiforme (Comb Dandelion) · T. phymatocarpum (Northern Dandelion) · T. spectabile (Showy Dandelion) · T. suecicum (Swedish Dandelion)
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Further Reading
- Handel-Mazzetti, H. 1907. Monographie der Gattung Taraxacum. Leipzig and Vienna.
- Richards, A. J. and P. D. Sell. 1973. Taraxacum. In: T. G. Tutin et al., eds. 19641980. Flora Europaea. 5 vols. Cambridge. Vol. 4, pp. 332343.
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- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:253693-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3145745
- Luc Brouillet "Taraxacum". in Flora of North America Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 8, 215, 239, 240, 241, 242. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]


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The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, released its list Thursday as cardinals held meetings at the Vatican in a prelude to the selection of the next pontiff.
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Act 3 No 13. Accompagnato: May balmy peace, and wreath'd renown (soprano)
Act 3 No 14. Aria: May balmy peace, and wreath'd renown (soprano)
Act 3 No 15. Chorus: Blessed are all they that fear the Lord
In national politics a greater crisis was brewing. Whilst King George II was away in Hanover, Prince Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, landed with his army in Scotland and started to march south. The English army was hastily recalled from Flanders, but when Bonnie Prince Charlie was victorious at the battle of Prestonpans in September and continued to press south, in certain quarters of London near panic set in. Under the leadership of the Duke of Cumberland, the son of George II, the English army moved northwards to confront the enemy, supported by a patriotic fervour that had not been seen in the capital for many years. Songs were written to support the army, including the present National Anthem, and the resident composer at the Haymarket Theatre, Gluck, contributed a suitably heroic drama, La Caduta de Giganti (which was greeted with as little enthusiasm as had been Handels concert season). Handel, by now the recipient of a pension from the royal court, felt it necessary to make his own musical contributions but, despite the Jacobites defeat at Derby in December, the year ended with the political situation still very much in the balance. Matters were not finally resolved until well into the next year when Cumberland routed the invading forces at the decisive battle of Culloden, earning his nickname of Butcher Cumberland. So, to raise flagging spirits in London, a major musical work was called for.
Handels new work seems to have been composed in something of a hurry and, as always, the composer was not afraid to recycle good material from earlier works. Confusion has surrounded who was the librettist for the Occasional Oratorio. A footnote under the air O liberty, thou choicest treasure in the first edition of Judas Maccabaeus (which received its opening performances in April 1747) reads: The following air was designd, and wrote for this Place, but it got I know not how, into the Occasional Oratorio, and was there incomparably Set, and as finely executed. The author of Judas was Thomas Morell, yet all the other indications are that Hamilton Newburgh was Handels librettist for the Occasional Oratorio. Perhaps Morell was already at work on Judas and Handel, working flat out on what was now the more urgent composition, simply lifted the movement, together with Morells words, and installed it amongst Newburghs text. (Curiously, O liberty was only inserted into Judas at the third performance.) The inclusion in Act II of music (and text) lifted directly from Athalia and in Act III from Israel in Egypt suggests that Handel was unconcerned in mixing the work of a number of authors.
By February 1746 the new oratorio was in rehearsal and on 8 February William Harris wrote: Yesterday morning I was at Handels house to hear the rehearsal of his new occasional Oratorio. It is extremely worthy of him He has but three voices for his songsFrancesina, Reinhold, and Beardhis band of music is not very extraordinaryDu Feche is his first fiddle, and for the rest I really could not find out who they were, and I doubt his failure will be in this article. The words of the Oratorio are scriptural but are taken from various parts, and are expressive of the rebels flight, and our pursuit of them. Had not the Duke carried his point triumphantly, this Oratorio could not have been brought on. It is to be performed in public next Friday. Not everyone was as enthusiastic, for on 3 February the writer Charles Jennens had noted in a letter:
The Oratorio, as you call it, contrary to custom, raised no inclination in me to hear it. I am weary of nonsense and impertinence; & by the Account L[or]d Guernsey gives me of this Piece I am to expect nothing else. Tis a triumph for a Victory not yet gaind, & if the Duke [of Cumberland] does not make hast[e], it may not be gaind at the time of performance. Tis an inconceivable jumble of Milton & Spencer, a Chaos extracted from Order by the most absurd of all Blockheads, who like the Devil takes delight in defacing the Beauties of Creation. The difference is, that one does it from malice, the other from pure Stupidity
Despite that tirade, written perhaps not without a hint of professional jealousy (Jennens had, after all, worked three times already as an oratorio librettist with Handel, including Messiah), the General Advertiser of 14 February 1746 announced that, At the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, this day will be performd A New Occasional Oratorio. Further performances were given on 19 and 26 February, and the work was revived (with some revisions) three more times in March the following year, just before the first performances of Judas Maccabaeus. Only three soloists, as we have seen, were named for the 1746 performances, but at least one other soloist must have been present, if only to sing the duet After long storms. In 1747 both Elisabetta de Gambarini and Caterina Galli took part as sopranos, a precedent we have used in this recording, and we have also allocated two low-set arias to an alto: otherwise the performing edition for this recording presents the movements heard in the 1746 performances.
Despite the success of those first 1746 performances, Jennens did not let up, and on 3 March he laced another letter to Holdsworth with even more vitriol:
You are mistaken as to the Occasional Oratorio, which is most of it transcribd from Milton & Spencer, but chiefly from Milton, who in his Version of some of the Psalms wrote so like Sternhold & Hopkins that there is not a pin to choose betwixt em. But there are people in the world who fancy everything which has Miltons name to it. I believe Hamilton has done little more than tack the passages together, which he has done with his usual judgement & cookd up an Oratorio of Shreds and patches.
Jennens was, with his own admission that he was not going to attend any performances, ensuring that he wrote with the same disadvantage under which other writers since have laboured: he had to judge Handels work without actually hearing it. Even if we accept some of his criticisms of the libretto, we do the work a disservice by approaching it with the expectation of finding a rip-roaring, operatic drama. Instead, Handel presents a series of dramatic tableaux. We find some terrific choruses, six first-rate orchestral movements and a fine variety of arias. For those who additionally enjoy a spot of Handelian detective work, there are a profusion of musical trails to follow. Here, in brief, is another splendid and unjustly neglected Handel oratorio.
Act I
The overture to the Occasional Oratorio is a strong, four-movement one. The opening Grave and the fine ensuing fugue had probably been written for the 1744 revival of Deborah: the Allegro also contains a theme from the overture to Telemanns Troisième Production of the Musique de Table, a source to which Handel also turned in the organ concertos. Newly composed was the third movement, a B minor Adagio with a glorious line for Handels principal oboist. With the works wartime origins in mind, Handel concluded with a stirring military March. In the interests of getting straight on with the drama, Handel forgoes an opening chorus, presenting instead the bass solo Why do the gentiles tumult whose strong rhythms, repeated string figurations and woodwind interpolations set a suitably militaristic tone. The choir enters with the first of three crusading choruses, the swaggering rhythms of And cast from us capped by the delayed entry of trumpets and drums.
The tenor takes a gently heroic role in the oratorio, and his opening aria O Lord, how many are my foes is an especially appealing one, with repeated string chords complemented by another delicious oboe solo. The chorus responds with another, much truncated version of Him or his God we not fear!, to which the tenor responds with another supplicatory aria, Jehovah, to my words give ear, duetting this time with a solo cello. The chorus ends the first episode with another repeat of the swinging battle chorus, the urgency of mood reflected by the presence of trumpets and drums from the outset.
The next scene is announced by the bass, continuing the paraphrase of bellicose words from Psalm 2. The sopranos first entry is a gentle one, with the aria, O, who shall pour into my swollen eyes lamenting the failings of the world; but she too takes up the warlike theme with the fiery aria Fly from the threatning vengeance, fly!, whose virtuoso runs must have delighted the singer in the first performances, La Francesina (the French soprano Elisabeth Duparc). The movement was a borrowing from the 1745 performances of Samson where Miss Robinson, granddaughter of the famous Purcellian countertenor William Turner, sang it with its original text, Fly from the cleaving mischief. The solo bass (originally Thomas Reinhold) returns with the accompagnato Humbled with fear and the splendid aria His sceptre is the rod of righteousness: the reintroduction of harmony after unison passages for singer and strings makes the great Dragon that strongly doth repress all the more picturesque. The middle section is a fine contrast, noble in its hymn-like melody; keeping the drama moving, Handel re-writes and shortens the first section, rather than offering a complete da capo.
The soprano solo Be wise, be wise at length, ye kings averse is a delight, lilting gently with a simple continuo line before it is transformed into an equally appealing chorus. But the peaceful mood does not last and the four Grave bars of Or brought full low lead into another warlike chorus section, where the enemy are Scatterd like sheep and perish ignominiously. In Jehovah is my shield the tenor sings of his confidence in God, the orchestral texture fleshed out by a rich viola line. Handels depiction of I lay and slept is especially fine. The chorus calls that the enemy be soundly defeated in a movement based on material from the F major concerto a due cori, whose scoring for horns (making their only appearance in the oratorio adaptation) ensures that Act I ends in belligerent mood.
Act II
Act II begins with a sequence of movements for solo soprano, beginning with the famous aria O liberty, thou choicest treasure. As has already been written, this aria seems to have been intended for Judas Maccabaeus but was added instead to the Occasional Oratorio: it was only restored to Judas at the third 1747 performance. It proved to be one of Handels biggest hits for years afterwards. The lively aria which follows, Prophetic visions strike my eye, featured a neat piece of topical plagiarism in its quotation of a phrase from a song in Thomas Arnes opera Alfred: Rule Britannia had first been heard by audiences at Cliveden in 1740 and was adopted by London audiences at the operas revival in the capital in 1745. (Arnes other famous patriotic song, God save the King, was sung at Drury Lane by the Gentlemen of that House every night until the danger of the Young Pretenders rebellion was over.)
Handels next borrowing was rather more extensive, although it was at least taken from one of his own compositions. In Athalia Around let acclamations ring grandly greets the newly crowned Joas. In the Occasional Oratorio, with a new text, May God, from whom all mercies spring, the movement is equally spectacular in its eight-part choral texture and fulsome orchestration. The tenor aria Then will I Jehovahs praise also has its origins in another work, the Masque Comus: during his recuperation in the summer of 1745 at the seat of the Earl of Gainsborough Handel contributed a handful of movements to the finale of a score which was largely by Arne. The following chorus was lifted from the same masque, its words changed from the original Happy plains to All his mercies shall endure. Next comes a charmingly lilting soprano solo, How great and many perils do enfold which is followed by the delightful duet After long storms, strongly redolent of the early Italian duets.
The bass solo To God, our strength is a jewel. The solemn opening, with high trumpet over slow-moving strings, harks back nearly thirty years to the delicious opening of the Birthday Ode for Queen Anne, Eternal source of light. This time Handel answers the trumpet with a solo oboe, and the two wind players engage in a private duet before the solo bass presents glorious music. Here is Handel at his most captivating. At Prepare the hymn the mood changes to a more steadfast, processional one, and Handel introduces the Lutheran chorale melody Ein feste Burg. The composer marshals his build-up magnificently, presenting the theme first in the solo bass, then with the full chorus. Finally the full ensemble, complete with ringing trumpets and timpani, celebrates in rousing style. The tenor solo which follows, He has his mansion fixd on high, was also borrowed from Comus, and leads to a stirring choral conclusion to Act II, Hallelujah, your voices raise. The fugue which is introduced at the mid-point, Jehovah, Lord of hosts, is a fine one.
Act III
The third part begins with an extensive, two-part orchestral symphony. The first section is taken from the first movement of the Concerto Grosso in G, Opus 6 No 1. For his second movement Handel turned to the Musette of his Concerto Grosso in E flat, Opus 6 No 6, which in its rich string scoring and glorious melodies bears striking resemblances to Corellis famous Christmas Concerto. The chorus that follows, I will sing unto the Lord, is one of Handels most thrilling, borrowed lock, stock and barrel from Israel in Egypt. Scored for double choir this is hugely dramatic music, flinging its themes from part to part, and saving the hair-raising entry of the brass to the last few pages.
Also taken from Israel in Egypt was the fine alto solo Thou shalt bring them in, now transposed up a semitone into F major to lead into another splendid chorus from the same oratorio. With its Grave opening scored in sixteen parts, Who is like unto thee is as sensational as Lord of eternity in Deborah, and leads into one of the composers best-known choruses, He gave them hailstones for rain. The orchestral opening, firing a C major chord between the strings and woodwind (complete with a vulgar bottom C for the bassoons), builds into the entry of the two opposing choruses, who indulge in nothing short of musical warfare, driven on by a wild orchestral accompaniment. Handels timpanist must have had a field-day!
After such choral fireworks Handel returns to solo movements. The soprano takes When warlike ensigns, nicely varied in its moods and, with its pastoral bagpipes at No pasture now the plain affords, also including another oblique reference to Rule Britannia. The lure of Israel in Egypt proved unstoppable and for The enemy said Handel again lifted the complete movement, ensuring that his tenor soloist was offered the opportunity for vocal pyrotechnics alongside the other, more lyrical arias of the Occasional Oratorio. For the bass Reinhold Handel produced a blustering setting of The sword thats drawn which leads into a spirited chorus, Millions unborn shall bless the hand. For La Francesina he wrote a charming setting of When Israel, like the bounteous Nile, and for John Beard a final, defiant aria (marked pomposo), Tyrants, whom no covnants bind. Before the finale the soprano calls for balmy peace to descend on Englands battle-hero, once again recycling a charmingly melodic aria from Comus. It is left to the choir to introduce the final celebrations, which it does with Handels most famous chorus of all, the coronation anthem Zadok the Priest, here reworded Blessed are all they that fear the Lord, and omitting the triple-time middle section And all the people rejoiced. If English hearts were going to be stirred, surely no music would have carried out the task better.
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