This Handbook covers Handel's best known public music, the Water Music, written at the outset of his English career, and the Music for the Royal Fireworks, the last and largest of his orchestral creations. The genesis of the two orchestral suites is examined in its political as well as musical context. Practical questions of performance style and interpretation are balanced by an enquiry into Handel's compositional processes, and the relationship of these pieces to his other large-scale orchestral compositions.
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'Hogwood is a reliable and well-informed guide to this repertory. ... It is a fascinating document.' Early Music
'Christopher Hogwood is one of the leading exponents of this period of music, and there is much to enjoy in [this book] ... that explores both the Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. ... anyone interested in delving more deeply into this intriguing period in the development of English music, can do little better than investing the modest amount in Hogwood's book.' Newsletter, Ipswich Arts Association
'Christopher Hogwood is one of the leading exponents of this period of music, and there is much to enjoy in [this book] ... that explores both the Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. ... anyone interested in delving more deeply into this intriguing period in the development of English music, can do little better than investing the modest amount in Hogwood's book.' Newsletter, Ipswich Arts Association
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This Handbook covers Handel's best known public music, the Water Music, written at the outset of his English career, and the Music for the Royal Fireworks, the last and largest of his orchestral creations. The genesis of these two orchestral suites is examined in its political as well as musical context; practical questions of performance style and interpretation are balanced by an enquiry into Handel's compositional processes, and the relationship of his other large-scale orchestral compositions. Hogwood also inlcudes an account of recordings, editions and a summary of performance questions.
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'I am myself alone' reads the Shakespearian inscription on a scroll decorating Goupy's caricature of Handel as a bewigged and well-dressed hog playing the organ, with the remnants of gluttony evident all around him (Plate 1). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
due cori, viola line, ater music, keyboard version, viola part, non troppo Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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'I am myself alone' reads the Shakespearian inscription on a scroll decorating Goupy's caricature of Handel as a bewigged and well-dressed hog playing the organ, with the remnants of gluttony evident all around him (Plate 1). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
due cori, viola line, ater music, keyboard version, viola part, non troppo Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Green Park, Trumpet Minuet, Covent Garden, Occasional Oratorio, Queen Anne, Queen's Library, British Library, John Walsh, King's Theatre, Prince of Wales, Duke of Montagu, John Christopher Smith, John Grano, The Gentleman's Magazine, Vauxhall Gardens New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Water Music: for Orchestra by George Friederic Handel on 51 pages
- The Music for the Royal Fireworks: for Orchestra by George Frideric Handel on 25 pages
- Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks (Dover Miniature Scores) by George Frideric Handel in Front Matter, page 24, and page 118
- The Cambridge Companion to Handel (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Donald Burrows in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Concerning Handel, His Life And Works; Essays (Music Book Index) by William Charles Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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