The Trumpet Shall Sound

The Air for bass "The trumpet shall sound", marked "Pomposo". In the “Messiah” it is only instrumental solo. The trumpet provides motifs which the bass picks up. In "and we shall be changed", the word "changed" is treated in inventive ever-changing melismas of up to six measures. In the middle section, the word "immortality" is expressed in a lively melisma of first eight, then nine measures.