Messiah/Part I/Comfort ye, comfort ye my people (Recit)
0:00 Strings, ritornello. 0:14 Tenor alone. Comfort ye, 0:22 Strings imitate comfort ye.
Strings, tenor.
Strings, comfort ye pattern. comfort ye my people, 0:38 Tenor alone.
Strings, tenor.
Strings, comfort ye pattern. comfort ye,
comfort ye my people, 1:02 Tenor, strings.
Strings, ritornello fragment. saith your God, saith your God; 1:19 Tenor, strings.
Tenor alone.
Tenor, strings, ritornello fragment. speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplish’d, that her iniquity is pardon’d. 2:32 Strings, ritornello.
Tenor recitative, short string chords accompany The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.