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Margherita Taylor: Water Music Suite, Air Smooth Classics presenter Margherita voted for Zadok the Priest as one of her Hall of Fame choices this year. But Anne-Marie Minhall had already nabbed that one for this feature, so Margherita's gone for her second favourite Handel piece - which was coincidentally another royal commission.
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The Water Music is a collection of orchestral movements, often considered as three suites, composed by George Frideric Handel for a boating party for King George I. It premiered in the summer on July 17, 1717 when the king requested a concert on the River Thames. The concert was performed by 50 musicians playing on a barge close to the royal barge from which the George I listened with some.
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Students listen to a portion of Handel's Water Music Suite and hypothesize about what would happen if you tapped on the edge of a glass with varying levels of water. They experiment with the glasses and, in small groups, compose their. Get Free Access See Review. Lesson Planet. Handel For Students 3rd - 4th. After reading a selection on the life of Handel, learners utilize worksheets.
Water Music is a work as unique as the circumstances of its premiere. Without modern amplification technology, there was no way that a normal-sized orchestra could be heard in such a venue, so Handel scored the work for an enormous ensemble by contemporary standards. The work itself seems to have consisted of over twenty movements lasting more than an hour. However, this version of the score.
Water Music announced the arrival of a fresh voice in American fiction. T. Coraghessan Boyle’s debut novel established a pattern that he would follow in subsequent works such as World’s End.