MUS Appreciation Handel Gloria: Et In Terra Pax. Voices Of Music Et In Terra Pax Movement From G.F. Handel's Gloria. Live Video From The San Francisco-Based Early Music Ensemble Voices Of Music, With Laura Heimes, Soprano. Featuring Carla Moore And Sara Usher, Baroque Violins; Farley Pearce, Baroque Cello, John Dornenburg, Violone; Katherine Heater, Baroque

MUS Appreciation

Handel Gloria: Et in Terra Pax. Voices of Music

Et in Terra Pax movement from G.F. Handel's Gloria. Live video from the San Francisco-based early music ensemble Voices of Music, with Laura Heimes, soprano. Featuring Carla Moore and Sara Usher, baroque violins; Farley Pearce, baroque cello, John Dornenburg, violone; Katherine Heater, baroque organ; Hanneke van Proosdij, harpsichord; David Tayler, archlute. Handel's Gloria probably dates from the first decade of the 18th century, when Handel was in Rome. One of his most beautiful sacred compositions for solo soprano and strings, the slow movement, Et in Terra Pax (peace on earth) is built upon plain, homophonic chords in the manner of the slow movement of a Vivaldi concerto, here performed with Affetuoso bowing. Over this simple chordal texture, Handel weaves a descant that creates a numinous litany gliding among and then above the strings. It is conjecture, but perhaps Handel wrote the Gloria for Margherita Durastanti, who starred in several of his most successful productions around 1707 in Rome.

Identify the musical elements listed and provide a response to each

Question:

1) Dynamics (how are performers using different levels of volume to enhance the music?)

2) Timbre (describe the color of an instrument or voices sound i.e. bright, dark, mellow, rich, scary, happy, etc.)

3) Tempo (musical terms which describe how fast or slow a piece is moving i.e. largo = slow, andante = walking speed, presto = fast etc.)

I need a detailed answer.

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