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Immediately following the climax of the piece is Adam and Eve realizing their duty upon the Earth and what God has intended them to do. They pledge their obedience to the Lord and are happy to do so. Still, though, they disobey their god. Haydn expresses their mischievousness through playful violins on sixteenth notes. Yet, although they had not been as loyal as they had told their Lord this number is consistently pleasant sounding in a major key. It is not until Uriel’s recite in …
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Part three deserves this entire section of the piece all to itself. The story of Adam and Eve is spread throughout Christianity from its basic tales to lore to the explanation of why man is sinful from birth. The story of the Creation could not be told without this part for it also shows the creation of our faith and the start of our society as a whole. Adam and Eve even try to answer the question that man has been asking why we were put on …
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The part two begins with “The fourth day…” on number fifteen when, “God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth… And God blessed them, saying , Be fruitful , and multiply , and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth” (The Holy Bible, Genesis 1:19 – 1:22). Uriel has a fantastic melody singing of the birds flying over the ocean and the earth. It begins with the orchestra soaring the audience through the air on the back of a great and mighty …
