Handel's Allegro Maestoso (Water Music Suite 2)

[WaterfordDarts]

Poo in the ass

[MrEstarmes]

There was good music than, and there is good music now. There was bad music then, and bad music now. Good music was the preference then, and bad music is the current preference.

[rkernell]

Over the years I have come to understand how advanced Handel was for his era. I am a real Bach and Haydn fanatic, but you hear themes and constructs in Handel's music that surpases much of thier music.

[ihuang55]

how can people dislike this?!??!!?!?? they must really like the color red...

[quemaspana]

Both of you completely miss the mark. Henry Purcell FAR SURPASSED THEM BOTH. Every other Baroque composer pretty much copied him.

[Random2]

@quemaspana While I am aware that he (purcell) predated most of the baroque composers, saying he "far surpassed" them seems a bit extreme, no? Under which measuring system? Can you provide a factual and objective system? If we simply look at the date on which their main works were composed, don't you think that is a bit of a jump in logic? Also, the fact that one person takes up inspiration in someone else's work does not make the second (or the first) worse than the other!

[madero111]

This is my favorite hornpipe recording

[anastasiaabongnelah]

magnificant

[dakid86able]

Art!

[mickXfan]

i was listening to Buckethead just a second ago, then my playlist shuffle brought me to this song. i went from a headbanging lunatic to fucking royalty having tea on the Titanic.

[madero111]

@mickXfan I'm not a particular fan of Buckethead type of music but listening to them, they are a really good group; their Soothsayer recording is really 'nice'. What i have to say is that i applaud that your music listening is from one extreme to another.......you really enjoy 'music". Life is......a million things to do!

[thecitywalls]

this reminds me of sesame street or something.

[TheFanwindow]

There is such discomfort with the music (yes, it's music) of today. I hope someday people can learn to appreciate music in all of its forms, not just those that sound pleasing.

[sheracad]

Thank God there are 300,000+ hits on this !!!!

I teach high school and play this for my Government class daily...

My students may be hit 24/7 by the media CRAP/RAP, but for 9 minutes each day I share with them some BEAUTY...

[lcsxwtian]

@sheracad Thank you for bringing the amazing grace to the world! The world today certainly has been somehow reformed into a somewhat morbid society. Sometimes it's truly touching when being nostalgic.

[liloux0802]

what is the caractère of this ?

[jonieheffner]

...yeah...like..im just sayin...where are the lyrics and the flash to this masterpiece.

[Brusselpicker]

Playing of Water Music. Handel was forgiven!

[Brusselpicker]

Was written to please the King after Handel left and returned to London without royal permission. It was played first on barges on the Thames in what is now Central London. The King himself travelled on the royal barge with the orchestra. He was so delighted with the music he ordered that the barges not be moored but play along the Thames. The orchestra were duly rowed up and down the Thames for several hours whilst playing the King finally relenting and allowing rest after the fifth playing of

[smelsliketeenspirit7]

8 People couldn't Handel his awesomeness..

[Mrs3beequeen]

aj ne seri

[bbly096]

It is actually called water music because it was to be played when the king of England is traveling on a boat down the English canals.

[codename47wq]

This kind of music apparently increases nueral activity in ur brain and makes u smarter.thumbs up if agree!

[mayorde18]

nice, but doesn't sound waterish :/

[StolenkissGerbils]

@mayorde18 Google it and you'll see why it's called "Water Music". Although I disagree - the bit that starts at about 1.05 has a representation of rivulets of water. Just my own ear's interpretation of course! ;)

[rhianahunter1]

@mayorde18 Think of a river. Everything from calm currents to white water rapids :)

[jonieheffner]

...handel....what a guy!!!

[DavePerry2012]

@jonieheffner Thumbs up to that!

[sweetness902101209]

ive heard this song before. now i know wht its called! i heart handel and his super awesomeness

[BASKETBALLJEZUS]

ahhh this music is so sweet like a 3 point shot of larry bird

[lavixninja]

wow this is much better than when our all county played it. i hardly recognize it! our horns needed A LOT of work...it still makes me cringe when i listen to the CD XD

[Aleksi535]

@mmmmmdatsgoodsoup No souls. Well I don't if they don't have souls, but people in the US are somewhat cold =D And I don't mean everyone but generally. In Latin countries or Asia, they'll are very passionate if they have to hang you or hug you. "I am sorry, " or "how are you," are vestigial phrases in countries, where most people are very cold =D Of course, these people are found everywhere in the world, but certain cultures or countries nurish such cold behavior =D it's the norm!

[TheMrTim]

ahh.. french horn part (: i played this 6 times in a row for the graduates

[dfgrde]

May be naughty women is alone find online brothers gettop5.info

[subcom22]

Listen, not all music made since the Baroque period is bad. A bunch of it is, but a bunch of music from this period and a bunch of music from before this period is bad, too. Bad music is made, and good music is made. It happens. And just because you're not into something doesn't mean it's bad. Everybody needs to just stop hatin'.

[htmlrules]

@subcom22 Well said, I've always enjoyed the definition of sound as "organised sounds that appeases the listener" so to everyone who thinks contemporary music is so terrible theres a quick effortless solution, Don't listen. Also, it looks like no one understands evolution (i don't either to any great lengths) but at least i know that evolution doesn't care about other people or other things, it only cares about keeping the animal alive in its current environment by changing/evolving.

[AdonaiAries]

@subcom22 STANDING OVATION!!!

[pjkgallo]

What good is this music!!

I have play that in my flute.

[fugueboy45]

You said it Frogboss6. My sentiments exactly. Evolution has gone in reverse regarding music. Two hundred years ago, even one hyundred years ago, they wrote beautiful, melodiv, rhythmic, majestic music. Today it truly is simple-minded crap, the same simple minded harmonies and non-melodies. Just moronic musical "hooks". We've gone backwards!

[jeffamarie]

Eh, not the whole thing.

[TehCavern]

this is by far the best music, better than the beatles, and that, for me, is BIG

[Frogboss6]

this is real music, not like the crap you hear today

[bananaman28]

@Frogboss6 yea all music besides this is shit right, i listen to this once every other year cuz its stuck in my head it must be really good

[fayyguyy]

@bananaman28 you are a dimwit and an imbecile, i blow my nose in your general direction... without g.f. handel among other composers prior to the 20th century, you would have the shit you listen to today. if not directly, they inspired artists who inspired artists who inspired the artists you listen to. pull your head out of your ass.

[halcaannen]

@Frogboss6 Cool!!!

[featheon]

@Frogboss6 Please define music, then. We're waiting...

[AuburnAttack21]

@Frogboss6

If by today you mean Lady Gaga, I concur.

[sasunarugeek]

@Frogboss6 

[ieshaparsons]

@Frogboss6

anglia television

[samskeeter1]

@Frogboss6 It's stood the test of time,thats for sure

[thomasbsturm]

@Frogboss6

No this music is shit compared to Bach. There's no counterpoint, its completely boring. Handel is the worst baroque composer.

[fujianprince]

@thomasbsturm Handel is the worst of Baroque?! Then Bach must be the most boring piece of shit counterpoint i have ever heard since Palestrina. Boring Bach wrote those "key-BORED suites" which are totally undanceable (Suites are meant for DANCING for God's sake!).

If you want some REAL counterpoint look at Ockeghem's Missa prolationum, a TRUE master of polyphony than your shitty composer!

[thomasbsturm]

@fujianprince

Excuse me? Bach essentially invented the fugue. To quote Stravinsky, "When a friend sends me a revised score of Mozart or Beethoven I put it in my shelf for later, but when I receive a copy of Bach I drop everything." Bach was the key inspiration of Beethoven, Chopin, Stravinsky, Brahms, and Webern. He wrote St. Matthews Passion, the Well Tempered Clavier, the Mass in B minor, the ART OF FUGUE! What did Handel write, The Messiah, This, and operas that no one performs.

[fujianprince]

@thomasbsturm Bach invented the fugue?! You have to be retarded not to know the names PACHELBEL, FRESCOBALDI, and BUXTEHUDE! And the Baroque Suite is not incidental music!!!

"The suite's quality and character remain in its entertainment and DANCES."

-Johann Mattheson (Affect and Rhetoric in Music, 1739)

[fujianprince]

@thomasbsturm YOU'RE WRONG:

"Handel is the only person I would wish to see before I die, and the only person I would wish to be." - JS Bach

"He takes other men's pebbles and polishes them into diamonds" - William Boyce

"The inspired master of our art." - CW Gluck

"He is the master of us all." - FJ Haydn

"Handel understands effect better than any of us" - WA Mozart

"Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb."

- LV Beethoven

[FreddyNostradamus]

@fujianprince Is he a film, with all of these "reviews"? LOL

[fujianprince]

@FreddyNostradamus it's not a "review," it's called a "quote"

[FreddyNostradamus]

@fujianprince I know they're "quotes", but, since they all assess positively Handel, exactly like the reviews do...it was only a joke. In fact, you can see I wrote "reviews" with the quotation marks.

[thomasbsturm]

@fujianprince

Also, a Suite is a piece Incidental Music usually describing something such as the Nutcracker Suite, or Holst's the Planets Suite. Even back in the Baroque Era (which usually used the Incidental Music definition), a suite had only one movement described as a "Dance". And, since when have any legitimate composers ever written music that was actually danced to?

[mariababyface]

@Frogboss6 TOTALLY AGREE

[mandelinho10]

Marvellous!

[theghostofmozart]

amazing



[VietAngel17]

They played this song for promotion. I'm gonna miss my friends. I don't know if I can make new friends...advice plz????

[codrutoctavian]

Can anyone identify the name of the song from this docu: watch?v=cS6G_2mfrVU which starts at 0:55? Sounds like Handel but I might be wrong. Thanks!

[DrivingGames]

It's by Henry Purcell, from the music he wrote for a play called Abdelazar. It's famous for being used by Britten as the basis of his Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.

[codrutoctavian]

Thanks God! You have found it! You don't know how happy I am :) Thank you so much!

[codrutoctavian]

Sorry to ask one more, it's the last one, I promise :) watch?v=gnQvMfADRQU from 4:05 to 6:58. I like it as well.

[PuissantAlgernon]

Gaaah. Why did you fade it out??

[ngabcle]

Love love love this piece. It is so majestic to me. Glad I "rediscovered" it on You Tube.

[10davie]

yay im playing this for solo and ensemble in a flute choir lol

[7argool]

yo , can you put the Full song?! thnx

[wca380]

Magic! Only Magic!

[musichiere70]

One of the most beautiful and phantastic melodies ever composed in the history ! Great Haendel !!

[nfitzkee]

Yes, this is Hornpipe.

[ben666wraith]

Divine : ) 5 stars

[kcatzykk]

this song is so nice but so hard to play on clarinet its super fast i cant keep up

[jessythewolf]

... This sounds like 'Hornpipe' to me; 'Allegro' is a different movement in the same Suite.

[leondetroya]

como diablos consigo su musica completa????

[Laura0806M]

is very,very exciting¡¡(por que tengo que escribir en ingles si soy española¡¡)

[Expertoflautista]

good

[smtiellgopher]

This was playing in the gardens of Versailles when I was there!

[vicerane373]

that is awesome!!!!

[halcaannen]

@smtiellgopher Cool!!!

[TehCavern]

@smtiellgopher wow! that must have been incredible!!! i cant wait to go!!!

[sweetness902101209]

@smtiellgopher youve been to Versailles?! cool! wht's it like there

[smtiellgopher]

@sweetness902101209 The inside was rather boring. The first room was like "wow! it's so pretty" then all of the rooms were like that so it just got repetitive but the outside was the best. Gardens as far as I could see, then they turned on the fountains...oh goosebumps just thinking about it. It was the best.

[DavePerry2012]

@smtiellgopher And rightly so. It is royal music.

[lunafringe10]

@smtiellgopher its nice, but not all contemporary music is crap.

[smtiellgopher]

@lunafringe10 lol I think you replied to the wrong person

[HomieAFCA]

@smtiellgopher Händel has nothing to do with Versailles, though. But it's a nice scene for this jewel.

[adamtoensberg]

A fine recording - is it possible to have the whole piece uploaded to youtube with a link in this thread?

[Ositavzla2008]

Excelente, sublime pero muy vigoroso.

Saludos,

[schatzmaster]

Great, I heard a version of this on NPR with Tympani, hope to find it later...

[tears5n5stars5r5one]

i've been lookin for this piece all over youtube!!! thx!

[BelegCuthalion94]

I play it on the piano, but it's called "Alla Hornpipe", isn't it? Anyway, it's really nice and so cheerful! (Sorry for my poor English...)

[KattyMas]

Very nice! ^^

[hpeterkawaja]

i remember this movement was used on some kind of british history/musium/biography/liter­ature/documentary tv show; i forget which one

[CharlieAngelQT]

Is it antiques roadshow? Or something very similar?

[sonijimm]

@CharlieAngelQT haha sounds well like it. yu just gave me mad nostalgia!!

[heartofgalss]

@CharlieAngelQT it's the old start up music for anglia tv

[XxskipenderxX]

this suite is the best! :D

[matsiouxno]

This takes me to my happy place!

[matsiouxno]

This takes me to my happy place!