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Messiah in Full Score (Dover Vocal Scores)

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Handel's Messiah is one of my favorite works of all time. And nothing goes with a great recording of this exquisite music like a fantastic score - exactly what Dover has provided for us here. Dover sews their books (they don't glue), so you can count on this score's durability, and the print is legible (which can't be said for all music) so you don't have to search out the magnifying glass to read the notes.

Masterful music in a high quality book and at a more-than-reasonable price. Do not delay in acquiring this score.

This is a wonderful book if you love to sing. Even if you just love the songs and have a copy of the concert on tape, now you can learn the words! My commumity has Messiah all sing concerts and even though I know the songs, it's always nice to have the music on hand. I ,personally, have been looking for this book everywhere!

This edition of Messiah by Alfred Mann dates from the early 1960s. It is a good edition at an excellent price. For the latest scholarship and all of Handel's variants, however, you should consider the 1998 Oxford University Press edition edited by Clifford Bartlett. For the best guide to the work, read "Handel: Messiah" by Donald Burrows in the Cambridge Music Handbook series.

Paul N. Van de Water

This is as good as it gets,score-wise, for Handel's best known piece. Unless you want to spend a lot, this is it !!!

I was very happy to obtain my own copy of Messiah. It's very nice quality, at a reasonable price. I chose it because it has the full score - I play oboe and the oboe parts are included, as well as the other instruments.

Even to atheists and other skeptics---thanks to G.F. Handel.... I don't know anyone who doesn't love this masterpiece. Handel sets the dry prose of Revelation and Isaiah to Baroque rock n roll, and has earned a place as one of the great vocal composers of ETERNITY... This Dover full score is priced lower than some piano reductions!

Great edition. Lots of notes in the back concerning the original manuscript so you know all the details about what Handel really wrote.

I would not be satisfied with this if I were singing, but to follow along it is excellent. I am thoroughly pleased.

From the introduction in the first pages of this book I learned that the reasons performances of MESSIAH are so varied is that Handel himself modified the score to fit the place, season, instrumental musicians available, vocal soloists available at his venues and time allotted to him for its performance. Having this Score to read while listening to a recording has been very educational for me. I have learned to pay attention to the words of the vocal parts and basically not to the notes on the staff.
I am so glad I found this book through Amazon... my listening experience has been enriched.

The book is compact and easy to work with, but the size shown does not allow the reader to realize that the print is microscopic! Only purchase this book if you have EXCELLENT vision! Other than that, it is a great value, and there is nothing wrong with the book.