Chase Rice - Eyes On You

classical music of choral writing. Brought up on the traditions of him. polyphony - choral, organ, orchestral, G. in his oratorio creativity also translated the traditions of English. choral culture (G. from the first years of his activity in England wrote choral anthems - English psalms such as cantatas, studied folk polyphonic music and G. Purcell's work). G. developed in oratorios the best elements of his opera music. G.'s melodic style, striking with its "ingenious calculation for the most dramatic strings of the human voice" (A. N. Serov),brought to them in oratorios to a high degree of expressiveness. Democratic the orientation of G.'s oratorical work determined its general accessibility both in relation to plots familiar to a wide audience, and nar. language, and in relation to music, characterized by a special relief and clarity of development. In G.'s oratorios opera-dramatic appeared. tendencies (Samson, 1741; Ievfay, 1752, etc.), epic (Israel in Egypt, 1739; Judas Maccabee, 1747, etc.), sometimes lyrical (Cheerful, thoughtful and restrained ”, 1740, according to J. Milton), but in all of them one can feel the optimism peculiar to G., a faint sense of beauty, a love of genre, concrete, visual principles. G.'s oratorios were created on the basis of a libretto freely interpreting legends from the Old Testament.