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This is the first book to survey the performing practices in English choral music in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including the period of the English Reformation. The essays, all written by specialists in the field, consider in depth such areas as the growth and development of the 'church' choir, related issues of vocal tessitura, performing pitch, the systems of pronunciation appropriate for Latin- and English-texted music, and the day-to-day training of choristers. There is also an investigation of the local circumstances under which many of the important manuscripts of the period were compiled, which reveals an unsuspectedly close interrelationship between domestic music and music for the church. In addition, a study of surviving sources reveals that they give little more than a general guide as to their composers' and copyists' intentions.

Choral music --- Performance practice (Music) --- Choirs (Music) --- Church music --- Sacred vocal music --- Latin language --- English language --- Musique chorale --- Pratique de l'exécution (Musique) --- Chorales --- Musique d'église --- Musique vocale sacrée --- Latin (Langue) --- Anglais (Langue) --- Church Latin --- Pronunciation --- Latin de l'Eglise --- Prononciation --- -Choral music --- -Church music --- -Latin language --- -Performance practice (Music) --- -Sacred vocal music --- -English language --- -Germanic languages --- Liturgical music --- Pastoral music (Sacred) --- Vocal music, Sacred --- Sacred music --- Vocal music --- Musical performance practice --- Performing practice (Music) --- Music --- Classical languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Classical philology --- Latin philology --- Religious music --- Devotional exercises --- Liturgics --- Music in churches --- Psalmody --- Choruses --- Choruses, Sacred --- Choruses, Secular --- Music, Choral --- Sacred choral music --- Secular choral music --- Choral groups --- Chorales (Musical groups) --- Choruses (Musical groups) --- Vocal groups --- Choral societies --- -Pronunciation --- History and criticism --- Pronoun --- Performance --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Pronunciation. --- History and criticism. --- -Church Latin --- Pratique de l'exécution (Musique) --- Musique d'église --- Musique vocale sacrée --- -Liturgical music --- Church Latin&delete& --- England --- 78.41.2 --- Germanic languages

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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.

513 --- Muziekanalyse - vormleer --- Handel, George Frideric, --- Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Messiah. --- 78.21.1 Händel --- 526.30 --- Genre- en werkbesprekingen --- Handel, George Friederich --- Muziekanalyses --- Muziekgeschiedenis --- Messiah --- Barok --- Groot-Brittannië --- Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759) --- Oratoria --- 18e eeuw --- Barokmuziek --- Analyses