Especially the circumlocution of Jericho: magnificent music with lots of festive trumpets and drums. But it's the quiet moments in the music, when Joshua calls to the Sun to stop it's path in the sky, and Handle does slowly rising rhythmic undulating pattern going up the scale that stops on a single suspended note when Joshua commands the sun to stop "Oh thou bright orb."
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Date: 28/7/11 04:41 (UTC)Especially the circumlocution of Jericho: magnificent music with lots of festive trumpets and drums. But it's the quiet moments in the music, when Joshua calls to the Sun to stop it's path in the sky, and Handle does slowly rising rhythmic undulating pattern going up the scale that stops on a single suspended note when Joshua commands the sun to stop "Oh thou bright orb."