Handel's Samson

Started by chasmaniac, February 04, 2011, 04:43:26 AM

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chasmaniac

February 04, 2011, 04:43:26 AM
I'm asking about this in several forums, hoping for some insight.

The soprano in "Glorious hero, may thy grave" sings intervals that strike me as distinctly Scottish. Is this an accident? Are my ears plugged? Was there a connection in the English imagination between Scottish music, which cannot have been much respected in Handel's time, and funereal wailing? Scholars! educate me.
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: "This is simply what I do."  --Wittgenstein, PI ยง217
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