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 HISTORY OF MENDELSSOHN'S "ELIJAH."

flat, because I prefer to have the word af/?jction on the G flat.*

��• This No. 5 was the original form of the tenor Recitative (now No. 3), "Ye people, rend your hearts." Before the Birmingham bars instead of 17) and less elaborate, and in the form in which it is now sung. The concluding bars of the original are here appended, with the two versions of the words, to show the force of Mendels- sohn's suggested alteration : —

Tenor Solo.

Bar 16 of original Regit.

���Aria.

A ndante tranquillo.

���The words of this Recit., as originally written by Bartholomew, were: "Ye people, rend your hearts, and not your garments, for your transgressions ; even as Elijah hath sealed the heavens through the word of God.

"1 therefore say to ye, Forsake your idols, return to God ; for He is ever enduring in goodness ; repenting of the evil. He turnetb our sorrow to gladness, and He comforteth us in affliction." ( 54 >

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