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Handel, Messiah
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ISBN: 0521376203 0521374790 9780521374798 9780521376204 9780511620096 1139085557 0511620098 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This new guide to Handel's most celebrated work traces the course of Messiah from Handel's initial musical response to the libretto, through the oratorio's turbulent first years to its eventual popularity with the Foundling Hospital performances. Different chapters consider the varying reception the work received in Dublin and London, the uneasy relationship between the composer and his librettist Charles Jennens and the many changes Messiah underwent through the varying needs and capacities of Handel's performers. As well as tracing the history of the work's development, the book addresses musical and technical issues such as Messiah's place in the oratorio genre, Handel's treatment of structural design, tonal relationships and English word-setting. An edited libretto elucidates the variants between the text that Handel set and the texts of the early printed word-books. Donald Burrows brings many new insights to this fascinating account of one of the favourite works of the concert hall.

Music and Theatre in Handel's World : the family papers of James Harris, 1732-1780
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ISBN: 0198166540 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press

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George Frideric Handel : collected documents
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ISBN: 9781107019539 9781107019546 9781107019553 9781107080218 1107019532 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge [etc.] Cambridge University Press

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The life and career of George Frideric Handel, one of the most frequently performed composers from the Baroque period, are copiously and intricately documented through a huge variety of contemporary sources. This major multi-volume publication is the most up-to-date and comprehensive collection of these documents. Presented chronologically in their original languages with English translations and with commentaries incorporating the results of recent research, the documents provide an essential and accessible resource for anyone interested in Handel and his music. In charting his activities in Germany, Italy and Britain, the documents also offer a valuable insight into broader eighteenth-century topics, such as court life, theatrical history, public concerts and competition between music publishers. This volume covers the period of Handel's London opera career during which he achieved gradual independence from the Royal Academy opera company, but also introduced English theatre oratorios and wrote the music for the 1727 coronation.


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A catalogue of Handel's musical autographs
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Year: 1994 Publisher: Oxford New York Clarendon Press Oxford University Press

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