Handel is recognized as one of the principal creative figures in Baroque music. In this Companion acknowledged experts on Handel make their expertise accessible to the interested general reader and music lover. All the genres in which Handel composed are considered including oratorio, chamber cantata, opera, and church music, as well as works for the keyboard and orchestra. The wide-ranging essays cover topics from Handel's composing methods to his treatment of the Italian language and matters of performance practice.
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'... condenses the current state of knowledge on various topics and the fruits of very recent research, some of it original and some of it now made available for the first time in English.' The Handel Institute Newsletter
'... both scholarly yet eminently readable and, as such, it s a book that will undoubtedly have wide appeal to both musical scholars and the ordinary music lover ... it places its subject firmly in historical context and gives us many (otherwise all too rare) glimpses into the mind of one of the truly great composers'. Scenario
'... both scholarly yet eminently readable and, as such, it s a book that will undoubtedly have wide appeal to both musical scholars and the ordinary music lover ... it places its subject firmly in historical context and gives us many (otherwise all too rare) glimpses into the mind of one of the truly great composers'. Scenario
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Handel is recognised as one of the principal creative figures in Baroque music. In this Companion acknowledged experts on Handel make their expertise accessible to the interested general reader and music lover. All the genres in which Handel composed are considered including oratorio, chamber cantata, opera, and church music, as well as works for the keyboard and orchestra.The wide-ranging essays cover topics from Handel's composing methods to his treatment of the Italian language and matters of performance practice.
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Scholars outside Germany have, with good reason, tended to avoid a direct confrontation with the first twenty-one years of Handel's life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
theatre oratorio, aria composition, leafy honours, oratorio performances, chamber duet, capo form, continuo group, four oboes, oratorio form, capo aria, oratorio season, col canto, organ concertos, funeral anthem, opening ritornello, aria texts, continuo accompaniment, opera seria, harpsichord music, trio sonatas, opera orchestra, performing material, concerti grossi, two oboes, keyboard pieces Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chapel Royal, Royal Academy, Foundling Hospital, King's Theatre, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, Handel's London, Charles Jennens, Alexander's Feast, Handel's English, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Westminster Abbey, King George, Coronation Anthems, John Christopher Smith, Grand Prince Ferdinando, Newburgh Hamilton, Queen Anne, Bernard Gates, James Brydges, John Gay, John Rich, Judas Maccabaeus, Alessandro Scarlatti, Duke of Chandos New!
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Scholars outside Germany have, with good reason, tended to avoid a direct confrontation with the first twenty-one years of Handel's life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
theatre oratorio, aria composition, leafy honours, oratorio performances, chamber duet, capo form, continuo group, four oboes, oratorio form, capo aria, oratorio season, col canto, organ concertos, funeral anthem, opening ritornello, aria texts, continuo accompaniment, opera seria, harpsichord music, trio sonatas, opera orchestra, performing material, concerti grossi, two oboes, keyboard pieces Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chapel Royal, Royal Academy, Foundling Hospital, King's Theatre, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, Handel's London, Charles Jennens, Alexander's Feast, Handel's English, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Westminster Abbey, King George, Coronation Anthems, John Christopher Smith, Grand Prince Ferdinando, Newburgh Hamilton, Queen Anne, Bernard Gates, James Brydges, John Gay, John Rich, Judas Maccabaeus, Alessandro Scarlatti, Duke of Chandos New!
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- Water Music: for Orchestra by George Friederic Handel on 6 pages
- The Music for the Royal Fireworks: for Orchestra by George Frideric Handel on 4 pages
- The Eighteenth Century (Blackwell History of Music in Britain) by H. Diack Johnstone in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Samson Agonistes by John Milton on page 100, and page 158
- Handel Tercentenary Collection (Studies in Musicology, 99) by Stanley Sadie in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Musical Visitors to Britain (Woburn Education Series) by Peter Gordon on 4 pages
- Handel: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by Christopher Hogwood in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Simon P. Keefe in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Careers of British Musicians, 1750-1850: A Profession of Artisans by Deborah Rohr in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Simon Frith in Front Matter
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