Handel Tercentenary Collection

Author : Anthony Hicksd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1988-03-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781349091393

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Handel by Anthony Hicksd Pdf

Author : Stanley Sadie,Anthony Hicks
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Music
ISBN : 0835718336

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Handel, Tercentenary Collection by Stanley Sadie,Anthony Hicks Pdf

Author : Donald Burrows
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991-06-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521376203

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Handel by Donald Burrows Pdf

This new guide to Handel's most celebrated work traces the course of Messiah from Handel's initial musical response to the libretto, through the oratorio's turbulent first years to its eventual popularity with the Foundling Hospital performances. Different chapters consider the varying reception the work received in Dublin and London, the uneasy relationship between the composer and his librettist Charles Jennens and the many changes Messiah underwent through the varying needs and capacities of Handel's performers. As well as tracing the history of the work's development, the book addresses musical and technical issues such as Messiah's place in the oratorio genre, Handel's treatment of structural design, tonal relationships and English word-setting. An edited libretto elucidates the variants between the text that Handel set and the texts of the early printed word-books. Donald Burrows brings many new insights to this fascinating account of one of the favourite works of the concert hall.

Author : Mary Ann Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136783593

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G. F. Handel by Mary Ann Parker Pdf

Baroque composer George Frideric Handel easily ranks among the world's greatest composers. The first edition of this research guide on Handel appeared in 1988; since that time a great deal of scholarly work has been published on Handel and related areas, including the discovery of a hitherto unknown work. New general resources such as the New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), electronic resources such as the RISM libretto catalogue online, and the study of Handel's continuing popularity as evidenced by the new Handel House Museum in London and Handel practice around the world (e.g., Messiah and millennium celebrations in Tonga, singalong Messiahs etc.) are incorporated into this revised edition of the Handel guide.

Author : David Vickers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 763 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351564243

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Handel by David Vickers Pdf

This anthology represents scholarly literature devoted to Handel over the last few decades, and contains different kinds of studies of the composer's biography, operatic career, singers, librettists, and his relationship with the music of other composers. Case studies range from recent research that transforms our knowledge of large-scale English works to an interdisciplinary exploration of an individual opera aria. Designed to bring easy and convenient access to students, performers and music lovers, the wide-ranging articles are selected by David Vickers (co-editor of the recent Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia) from diverse sources - not only familiar important journals, but also specialist yearbooks, festschrifts, not easily accessible newsletters, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues. Many of these represent an up-to-date understanding of modern Handel studies, deal with fascinating biographical issues (such as the composer's art collection, his chronic health problems, and the nature of popular anecdotal evidence), and fill gaps in the mainstream Handelian literature.

Author : David Vickers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783271467

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New Perspectives on Handel's Music by David Vickers Pdf

An international collaboration between leading scholars showcases a broad spectrum of observations on Handel and his music, covering many aspects of modern interdisciplinary and traditional philological musicology.

Author : Donald Burrows
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521456134

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The Cambridge Companion to Handel by Donald Burrows Pdf

A Companion to one of the principal creative figures in Baroque music.

Author : David Hunter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783270613

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The Lives of George Frideric Handel by David Hunter Pdf

How have Handel's 'lives' in biographies and histories moulded our understanding of the musician, the man and the icon?

Author : Sarah Yuill McCleave
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781580464208

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Dance in Handel's London Operas by Sarah Yuill McCleave Pdf

Examines the pivotal role of dance in the Italian operas of Handel, perhaps the greatest opera composer between Monteverdi and Mozart. George Frideric Handel set himself apart from his contemporaries by employing choreographed instrumental music to complement and reinforce the emotional impact of his operas. Of his fifty-three operas, no fewer than fourteen -- including ten written for the London stage -- feature dances. Dance in Handel's London Operas explores the relationship between music, drama, and dance in these London works, dispelling the notion that dance was a largely peripheral element in Italian-language operas prior to those of Gluck. Taking a chronological approach, Sarah McCleave examines operas written throughout various periods in Handel's life, beginning with his early London operas, including his time at the Royal Music Academy and the "Sallé" operas of the 1730s, and concluding with his unstaged dramatic opera Alceste (1750). In considering the various influences on Handel (particularly the London stage), McCleave blends analysis of information from eighteenth-century treatises with that found in more modern studies, offering an informed and imaginative understanding of the role dance played in the work of this major figure --one who remained responsive throughout his career to the vital and innovative theatrical environment in which he worked. Sarah McCleave is a lecturer at The School of Creative Arts at Queen's University Belfast.

Author : Ellen T. Harris
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0674015983

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Handel as Orpheus by Ellen T. Harris Pdf

Handel wrote over 100 cantatas, compositions for voice and instruments decsribing the joy and pain of love. In the first comprehensive study of the cantatas, Harris investigates their place in Handel's life as well as their extraordinary beauty.

Author : Christine Gerrard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0198183887

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Aaron Hill by Christine Gerrard Pdf

During his lifetime Aaron Hill was one of the most lively cultural patrons and brokers on the London literary scene - an image hard to square with the company of undistinguished scribblers to which Pope relegated him in the Dunciad. Aaron Hill: The Muses' Projector, 1685-1750, the firstbiography of this fascinating figure for nearly a century, aims to correct the distorted picture of the Augustan cultural scene which Pope passed down to posterity. Hill deliberately confronted Pope in his attempt to free poetry's sublime and visionary potential from the stale platitudes ofneo-classical convention. An early champion of women poets, he also enjoyed close relationships with Eliza Haywood and Martha Fowke, and brought his three writing daughters Urania, Astrea, and Minerva into close contact with his lifelong friend the novelist Samuel Richardson. In 1711 Hill, as stagemanager and librettist, introduced Handel to the English stage, as well as lobbying tirelessly for innovation in the eighteenth-century theatre. His entrepreneurial energies, directed at both commercial and cultural projects, mirror the zeitgeist of early Hanoverian Britain.

Author : Christopher Hogwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521836360

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Handel: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks by Christopher Hogwood Pdf

A study of Handel's best-known public music: Water Music, and Music for the Royal Fireworks.

Author : Vanessa Hibbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015012787167

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Tercentenary of the Birth of George Frideric Handel by Vanessa Hibbert Pdf

Author : Nathan Link
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Opera
ISBN : 9780197651346

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A Poetics of Handel's Operas by Nathan Link Pdf

"A Poetics of Handel's Operas investigates the rich representational fabric of Handel's stories, drawing upon musicology, narratology, drama, and film in offering a study with appeal to scholars, producers and performers, opera afficionados, and anyone fascinated by storytelling. In most storytelling genres, we often distinguish between the story, on the one hand, and the way that story is represented, on the other, without a second thought. We know that a character in a film hears neither her own voice-over nor the ambient music that accompanies it, and that she does not really build a house from the ground up in the three minutes spanned by the cinematic montage that depict its construction. In opera, however, many commentators to this day characterize the medium as "unrealistic," since we know, for example, that people in the real world do not sing to each other, nor does orchestral music accompany their utterances. This said, the vocal and orchestral music, while not literally present in the world of the story surely have a great deal to tell us about the opera's story and its characters, and if we distinguish the performance we see and hear on the stage and in the orchestra pit from the story represented, we enable ourselves to construct stories that are no less coherent than those conveyed by other media. By avoiding conflation of the story and its representation, we enable ourselves to engage more meaningfully with the significance of these and many other unique aspects of operatic storytelling"--

Author : Matthew Gardner
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783862346615

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Handel and Maurice Greene's Circle at the Apollo Academy by Matthew Gardner Pdf

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.