He set dialogue as recitatives while lyrical verses were set as the arias.
His oratorio librettos were English.
The mood of each aria is prepared, and the aria introduced, by a preceding recitative
Some oratorios do not have sacred subjects, but are mythological (eg) “semele” and “Hercules”
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