“What makes this piece so imaginative is a technique Handel…” — Music for Life at 3:35
“What makes this piece so imaginative is a technique Handel employs called word painting. This is where a composer makes the music sound like what the words are describing. For example, in the first half, which is about the plagues on Egypt and Israel's departure, Handel ingeniously portrays frogs, lice, hailstones…”
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