This book represents the most thorough study to date of Handel's compositional procedures in his English oratorios and musical dramas. Exploring the composer's sketches and autograph scores, it offers fresh insights into the creative mind of one of the leading figures in Baroque music.
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"Hurley's book is a timely addition to the Handel literature."--Notes
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David Ross Hurley is Assistant Professor of Music at Pittsburg State University
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SCHOLARS interested in compositional process have by now turned their attention to several composers of the eighteenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
concluding ritornello, internal ritornello, opening ritornello, leafy honours, dramatic oratorios, late oratorios, closing ritornello, vocal entrance, vocal cadence, minor mediant, section cadence, conducting score, skeleton score, musical autographs, final ritornello, fond shepherd, weak cadence, capo aria, entire completed, capo form, vocal statement, musical imagery, col canto, autograph version, strong cadence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, Winton Dean, John Roberts, Queen of Sheba, Ann Arbor, New York, Charles Jennens, Documentary Biography, Gerald Abraham, Robert Marshall, British Library, Cambridge University Press, Charles Burney, Donald Burrows, Harmonious Blacksmith, Johann Mattheson, Elaine Sisman, General History of Music, Giulia Frasi, Harvard University Press, Ruth Smith, Alexander Balus, Huntington Library, King's Theatre, Oxford University Press New!
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SCHOLARS interested in compositional process have by now turned their attention to several composers of the eighteenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
concluding ritornello, internal ritornello, opening ritornello, leafy honours, dramatic oratorios, late oratorios, closing ritornello, vocal entrance, vocal cadence, minor mediant, section cadence, conducting score, skeleton score, musical autographs, final ritornello, fond shepherd, weak cadence, capo aria, entire completed, capo form, vocal statement, musical imagery, col canto, autograph version, strong cadence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, Winton Dean, John Roberts, Queen of Sheba, Ann Arbor, New York, Charles Jennens, Documentary Biography, Gerald Abraham, Robert Marshall, British Library, Cambridge University Press, Charles Burney, Donald Burrows, Harmonious Blacksmith, Johann Mattheson, Elaine Sisman, General History of Music, Giulia Frasi, Harvard University Press, Ruth Smith, Alexander Balus, Huntington Library, King's Theatre, Oxford University Press New!
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- Handel: A Documentary Biography (Da Capo Press music reprint series) by Otto Erich Deutsch on 8 pages
- Handel Tercentenary Collection (Studies in Musicology, 99) by Stanley Sadie on 5 pages
- A General History of Music by Charles Burney on 4 pages
- Music and Theatre: Essays in Honour of Winton Dean by Nigel Fortune on page 168, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Music in Eighteenth-Century England: Essays in Memory of Charles Cudworth by Christopher Hogwood in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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