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• - Introduction; recommended recordings, some with very detailed reviews.
  
• - Digital facsimile of complete score (1912 Schirmer ed.)
  
• - Paper by Patrick Findlay: related musical and cultural changes.
  
• - [scans of two pages of a historically interesting manuscript]
  
• - Complete libretto, commentary, nearly complete MIDI.
  
• - Libretto; WAV files of several movements (at Classical Music Pages)
  
• - Complete libretto, with sources.
  
• - MIDI encoding of the "Messiah".