In this wide-ranging and challenging book, Ruth Smith shows that the words of Handel's oratorios reflect the events and ideas of their time and have far greater meaning than has hitherto been realized. She sheds new light on the oratorio librettists and explores literature, music, aesthetics, politics and religion to reveal Handel's texts as conduits for eighteenth-century thought and sensibility. This book enriches our understanding of Handel, his times, and the relationships between music and its intellectual contexts.
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"The book presents research on the English social and cultural contexts of Handel's oratorios, topics usually treated as peripheral in traditional studies, which relate his librettos primarily to their musical settings." Choice
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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.
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The printed libretto - the wordbook - was an indispensable part of attendance at the oratorio. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
oratorio years, divine musick, oratorio librettists, oratorio period, oratorio librettos, oratorio audience, oratorio choruses, religious sublime, court odes, anthem texts, new oratorio, oratorio texts, funeral anthem, hath afflicted, political prints, biblical paraphrase, cathedral music, national corruption, opposition writers, exemplary history, biblical drama, religious verse, mighty fallen Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Testament, Prince of Wales, Red Sea, New Testament, Aaron Hill, Gentleman's Magazine, Alexander Balus, James Miller, Queen Caroline, Samson Agonistes, Occasional Oratorio, Old Whig, Coronation Anthems, God of Israel, Newburgh Hamilton, Paradise Lost, Song of Moses, Thomas Morell, Common Sense, Isaac Watts, Judas Macchabaus, Lord Bolingbroke, Prayer Book, Christine Gerrard, Church of England New!
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The printed libretto - the wordbook - was an indispensable part of attendance at the oratorio. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
oratorio years, divine musick, oratorio librettists, oratorio period, oratorio librettos, oratorio audience, oratorio choruses, religious sublime, court odes, anthem texts, new oratorio, oratorio texts, funeral anthem, hath afflicted, political prints, biblical paraphrase, cathedral music, national corruption, opposition writers, exemplary history, biblical drama, religious verse, mighty fallen Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Testament, Prince of Wales, Red Sea, New Testament, Aaron Hill, Gentleman's Magazine, Alexander Balus, James Miller, Queen Caroline, Samson Agonistes, Occasional Oratorio, Old Whig, Coronation Anthems, God of Israel, Newburgh Hamilton, Paradise Lost, Song of Moses, Thomas Morell, Common Sense, Isaac Watts, Judas Macchabaus, Lord Bolingbroke, Prayer Book, Christine Gerrard, Church of England New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Cambridge Companion to Handel (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Donald Burrows in Front Matter
- Bolingbroke: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Henry Bolingbroke in Front Matter
- Hogarth's Harlot: Sacred Parody in Enlightenment England by Ronald Paulson in Back Matter
- Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by Gerald Newman on page 519
- Handel (Master Musicians Series,) by Donald Burrows in Back Matter
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