| Description |
xxxii, 594 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Baroque composers
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Baroque composers.
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| Note |
Essays and articles reprinted from a variety of sources. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Biographical aspects -- Mythistorica Handeliana / Charles Cudworth -- Organ playing in the Lateran and other remembrances on Handel : a report in the Voiage historique of 1737 / Ursula Kirkendale -- Handel and the feuding royals / Thomas McGeary -- Handel's art collection / Alison Meyric Hughes and Martin Royalton-Kisch -- Joseph Goupy and George Frideric Handel : from professional triumphs to personal estrangement / Ellen T. Harris -- Handel's ill health : documents and diagnoses / David Hunter -- -- pt. II. Handel and the opera house -- Handel's Haymarket Theater / Mark W. Stahura -- Box office reports for five operas mounted by Handel in London, 1732-1734 / Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume -- Handel's 1736 performances of Ariodante / Donald Burrows -- -- pt. III. Case studies of Handel's compositions -- Benedetto Pamphilj as librettist : Mary Magdalene and the harmony of the spheres in Handel's Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno / Huub van der Linden -- Psychological realism in Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno / Ruth Smith -- A newly discovered Water music source / Terence Best -- Handel and the confus'd shepherdess : a case study of stylistic eclecticism / Graham Cummings -- Handel, Jennens and Saul : aspects of a collaboration / Anthony Hicks -- From Milton to Handel : the transformation of Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso into a musical work for concert performance in the London theatres / Donald Burrows -- Some thoughts on musical organization in L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato / Graydon Beeks -- -- pt. IV. Handel's performers -- The unpublished Senesino/ Elisabetta Avanzati; From Rinaldo to Orlando, or Senesino's path to madness / Melania Bucciarelli -- Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni : the rival queens? / Suzana Ograjenšek -- Marie Sallé as muse : Handel's music for mime / Sarah McCleave -- John Beard : the tenor voice that inspired Handel / Neil Jenkins -- -- pt. V. Librettists -- Handel's relations with the librettists of his operas / Winton Dean -- The achievements of Charles Jennens (1700-1773) / Ruth Smith -- George Frideric Handel's 1749 letter to Charles Jennens / William D. Gudger -- Thomas Morell and his letter about Handel / Ruth Smith -- -- pt. VI. Handel and other composers -- Handel's years as an apprentice to Reinhard Keiser at the Gänsemarkt opera house (1703-1705) / Hans Joachim Marx -- Handel and Alessandro Scarlatti / Winton Dean -- Handel and the shepherds of Ansbach / John H. Roberts -- What did Handel learn from Steffani's operas? / Colin Timms -- -- pt. VII. Performing Handel -- Who does what, when? : on the instrumentation of the basso continuo and the use of the organ in Handel's English oratorios / Donald Burrows -- Staging a Handel opera / Andrew V. Jones. |
| Subject |
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| Added Author |
Vickers, David, 1975-
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| ISBN |
9780754628859 hardback |
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075462885X hardback |
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