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Handel
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ISBN: 9780199737369 0199737363 0190268158 9786613622709 0199781400 1280592877 0199780080 9780199781409 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York City : Oxford University Press,

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Handel is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of western music. His compositions form one of the peaks of creative achievement in the Baroque period, and cover a remarkable range: full-scale Italian operas and English oratorios (including Messiah), but also shorter works such as the Water Music and the Coronation Anthem Zadok the Priest. His compositional processes were often complex, but could result in accessible and memorable 'hit tunes', such as the aria that subsequently became famous as 'Handel's Largo'.His life and career were as remarkable as his music. Born in Germany to


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Handel and the English Chapel Royal
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ISBN: 9780199550968 0199550964 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford : 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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Enlightened princesses : Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the shaping of the modern world

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Caroline of Ansbach (1683?1737), Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719?1772), and Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz (1744?1818) were three German princesses who became Queens Consort?or, in the case of Augusta, Queen in Waiting, Regent, and Princess Dowager?of Great Britain, and were linked by their early years at European princely courts, their curiosity, aspirations, and an investment in Enlightenment thought. This sumptuously illustrated book considers the ways these powerful, intelligent women left enduring marks on British culture through a wide range of activities: the promotion of the court as a dynamic forum of the Hanoverian regime; the enrichment of the royal collection of art; the advancement of science and industry; and the creation of gardens and menageries. Objects included range from spectacular state portraits to pedagogical toys to plant and animal specimens, and reveal how the new and novel intermingled with the traditional.

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