Author: Georg Friedrich HändelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Handel's Oratorio Solomon
Author: Georg Friedrich HändelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Handel's Oratorio"Solomon"... in Vocal Score, with a Separate Accompaniment for the Organ Or Pianoforte Arranged by V. Novello
Author: George Frideric HandelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Handel's Israelite Oratorio Libretti
Author: Deborah W. RookePublisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN: 0199279284
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Combining the insights of present-day biblical studies with those of Handelian studies, this book examines the libretti of ten of Handel's Israelite oratorios and evaluates the relationship between each libretto and the biblical story on which it is based.
Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought
Author: Ruth SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521402654
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
In this wide-r anging and challenging book, Ruth Smith claims that the words to Handel's oratorios reflect the events and ideas of their time and have far greater meaning than has hitherto been realised. She explores eighteenth-century literature, music, aesthetics, politics and religion to reveal Handel's texts as conduits for the thought and sensibility of their time. The book thus enriches our understanding of Handel, his times, and the close relationship between music and its intellectual contexts.
George Frideric Handel
Author: Paul Henry LangPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144593
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Exceptionally full, detailed study of the man, his music and times. Childhood, music training, years in London; analysis of Messiah and other works; much more. Introduction. Includes 35 illustrations.
George Frideric Handel
Author: Marian Van TilPublisher: WordPower Publishing
ISBN: 0979478502
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The author presents a view of Handels life--his character, faith and music--as his contemporaries saw him.
A History of the Oratorio: The oratoria in the baroque era: Protestant Germany and England
Author: Howard E. SmitherPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807812945
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
History of the Oratorio: Vol. 2: the Oratorio in the Baroque Era: Protestant Germany and England
Handel and Maurice Greene's Circle at the Apollo Academy
Author: Matthew GardnerPublisher: V&R Unipress
ISBN: 3862346617
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
The Apollo Academy, a musical club founded in 1731 by Maurice Greene and his friend Michael Christian Festing, was the performance location of various oratorios, odes and masques produced by composers in Greene's circle of friends, colleagues and pupils. Many of the works performed both in and outside the academy meetings are based on subjects such as Jephtha, Deborah and the choice of Hercules which were well known in eighteenth-century England and also attracted the attention of Handel. This long-overdue study explores these works in terms of their intellectual contexts (political, religious, social and cultural), comparing them to Handel's compositions on the same or similar subjects. Additionally, detailed source information and musical analysis of the works is included as well as a discussion of the competition between Handel and his English contemporaries in order to provide a fuller picture of the diverse musical and cultural life in London during the first half of the eighteenth century.
Angels Ever Bright and Fair
Author: George Frideric HandelPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337450854
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart
Author: Ralph P. LockePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316298205
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
During the years 1500–1800, European performing arts reveled in a kaleidoscope of Otherness: Middle-Eastern harem women, fortune-telling Spanish 'Gypsies', Incan priests, Barbary pirates, moresca dancers, and more. In this prequel to his 2009 book Musical Exoticism, Ralph P. Locke explores how exotic locales and their inhabitants were characterized in musical genres ranging from instrumental pieces and popular songs to oratorios, ballets, and operas. Locke's study offers new insights into much-loved masterworks by composers such as Cavalli, Lully, Purcell, Rameau, Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck, and Mozart. In these works, evocations of ethnic and cultural Otherness often mingle attraction with envy or fear, and some pieces were understood at the time as commenting on conditions in Europe itself. Locke's accessible study, which includes numerous musical examples and rare illustrations, will be of interest to anyone who is intrigued by the relationship between music and cultural history, and by the challenges of cross-cultural (mis)understanding.