| Description |
xi, 308 pages : music ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in musicology ; no. 99
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Studies in musicology ; no. 99.
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| Note |
Based on papers presented at a conference held at the Royal Society of Arts, London in July 1985. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and indexes. |
| Contents |
Research. Scholarship and the Handel revival, 1935-85 / Winton Dean -- Sources, resources and Handel studies / Donald Burrows -- Sources and influences. Handel and his Central German background / Bernd Baselt -- The case for Handel's borrowings : the judgment of three centuries / George J. Buelow -- Why did Handel borrow? / John H. Roberts -- The dramatic music and its background. The staging of Handel's operas in London / Lowell Lindgren -- English traditions in Handel's Rinaldo / Curtis Price -- The Royal Academy of Music (1719-28) and its directors / Elizabeth Gibson -- Handel's disengagement from the Italian opera / Carole Taylor -- New sources for the libretto of Handel's Joseph / Duncan Chisholm -- Vocal. "A club of composers" : Handel, Pepusch and Arbuthnot at Cannons / Graydon Beeks -- Steffani's influence on Handel's chamber duets / Colin Timms -- Handel's Italian cantatas : some new sources / Malcolm Boyd -- Instrumental. The origins of Handel's opus 3 : a historical review / Hans Joachim Marx -- Handel and the organ concerto : what we know 250 years later / William D. Gudger -- Interpreting Handel's rhythmic notation : some reflections on modern practice / Terence Best. |
| Subject |
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759 -- Congresses.
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Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Sadie, Stanley.
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Hicks, Anthony.
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| ISBN |
0835718336 |
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033342882X : £29.50 |
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