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| | Handel Society: Program Notes for "Romeo and Juliette" |
 | | She became the personification of Ophelia, Desdemona, and Juliet, and he began to think seriously about composing some kind of musical Romeo and Juliet, perhaps an opera. |
 | | The new symphony was also to be a choral symphony, using a double chorus to represent the two warring families and solo voices as secondary characters (Mercutio, Friar Laurence and the contralto soloist as commentator). |
 | | The symphony is scored for a large orchestra, a chorus divided into Capulets and Montagues (each consisting of sopranos, tenors and basses), a small chorus of twelve to twenty voices to sing the narrative recitatives in the Prologue, and three soloists. |
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