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Handel.
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ISBN: 9780199737369 0199737363 0190268158 9786613622709 0199781400 1280592877 0199780080 9780199781409 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press, USA

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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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Julius Caesar in Egypt =
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ISBN: 1280922540 9786610922543 0585427038 9780585427034 Year: 2000 Publisher: [Coral Gables, Fla.] Opera Journeys

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A comprehensive opera-guide, featuring Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis.

G.F. Handel : a guide to research
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ISBN: 113678358X 0203954327 1136783598 9781136783586 9780203954324 041594323X 9780415943239 9781136783593 9781136783548 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York : Routledge,


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The rival sirens
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ISBN: 9781107033375 9781139519663 9781107058194 1107058198 9781107055971 1107055970 1139519662 1107033373 1139889702 1107065615 1107057043 1107054907 1107059534 1108829244 9781108829243 9781139889704 9781107065611 9781107057043 9781107054905 9781107059535 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this misunderstanding, The Rival Sirens suggests that the rivalry fostered between the singers in 1720s London was in large part a social construction, one conditioned by local theatrical context and audience expectations, and heightened by manipulations of plot and music. This book offers readings of operas by Handel and Bononcini as performance events, inflected by the audience's perceptions of singer persona and contemporary theatrical and cultural contexts. Through examining the case of these two women, Suzanne Aspden demonstrates that the personae of star performers, as well as their voices, were of crucial importance in determining the shape of an opera during the early part of the eighteenth century.

Handel's oratorios and eighteenth-century thought
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ISBN: 0521402654 052102370X 051147024X 0511832818 9780521402651 9780511470240 9780521023702 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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In this wide-ranging and challenging book, Ruth Smith shows that the words to Handel's oratorios reflect the events and ideas of their time and have far greater meaning than has hitherto been realized. She explores literature, music, aesthetics, politics and religion to reveal Handel's works as conduits for eighteenth-century thought and sensibility. She provides a full picure of Handel's librettists and shows how their oratorio texts express key moral-political preoccupations and engage with contemporary ideological debate. British identity, the need for national unity, the conduct of war, the role of government, the authority of the Bible, the purpose of literature, the effect of art - these and many more concerns are addressed in the librettos. The book thus enriches our understanding of Handel, his times, and the relationships between music and its intellectual contexts.

The possessor and the possessed
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ISBN: 1281734748 9786611734749 0300135114 9780300135114 0300087586 9781281734747 9780300087581 Year: 2001 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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The concept of genius intrigues us. Artistic geniuses have something other people don't have. In some cases that something seems to be a remarkable kind of inspiration that permits the artist to exceed his own abilities. It is as if the artist is suddenly possessed, as if some outside force flows through him at the moment of creation. In other cases genius seems best explained as a natural gift. The artist is the possessor of an extra talent that enables the production of masterpiece after masterpiece. This book explores the concept of artistic genius and how it came to be symbolized by three great composers of the modern era: Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven. Peter Kivy, a leading thinker in musical aesthetics, delineates the two concepts of genius that were already well formed in the ancient world. Kivy then develops the argument that these concepts have alternately held sway in Western thought since the beginning of the eighteenth century. He explores why this pendulum swing from the concept of the possessor to the concept of the possessed has occurred and how the concepts were given philosophical reformulations as views toward Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven as geniuses changed in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

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Genius --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Composers. --- Songwriters --- Musicians --- Creative ability in art --- Creative ability in literature --- Art --- Imagination --- Inspiration --- Literature --- Creative ability --- Originality --- Intelligence levels --- History. --- Handel, George Frideric, --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, --- Beethoven, Ludwig van, --- Bītʹhūfin, --- Beethoven, L. van --- Beethoven, Louis van, --- Beethoven, Ludvig van, --- Bethovenas, L., --- Betkhoven, Li︠u︡dvig van, --- Beṭhoṿn, Ludṿig ṿan, --- Beethoven, Ludwik van, --- Betkhoven, L. van --- Bētōven, Rūtovihhi van, --- בטהובן --- בעטהאָוון, לודוויג וואן --- ベートベン, ルートビッヒ, --- 贝多芬, --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus --- Mozart, Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus --- Händel, G. F. --- Haendel, Georg Friedrich --- Händel, Georg Frideric --- Haendel, Georges-Frédéric, --- Gendelʹ, Georg Fridrikh, --- Khendel, G. F. --- Khendel, Georg Fridrikh, --- Händel, Georg Friedrich, --- Handel, G. F. --- Haendel, G. F. --- Haendel, Georg Friedrich, --- Gendelʹ, G. F. --- Handel, Geʼorg-Fridrikh, --- Hendelis, G. F., --- Henderu, Georuku Furīdorihhi, --- Haendel, George Frideric, --- Handel, George Frederick, --- Hendel, George Frideric, --- Handel, George Fredrick, --- הנדל, --- Handel, F. G., --- Composers --- Music --- Music History & Criticism, General --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- E-books --- Mot︠s︡art, Volʹfgang Amadeĭ, --- Mōtsaruto, --- Mot︠s︡art, Iogann-Krizost Volʹfgang Gotlib, --- Mozart, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus, --- Mozart, W. A. --- Mozart, Wolfgango Amadeo, --- Mot︠s︡art, V. A. --- Mocartas, V. A., --- Motsart, Volphnkank Amedaios, --- Mot︠s︡art, Volfang Amadeus, --- Mozzart, Apollo, --- Mozart, Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Amadeus, --- Mozart, Johannes Chrisostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus, --- Mozhate, --- Моцарт, Вольфганг Амадей, --- מוצרט, --- מוצרט, וולפגנג אמדאוס, --- 莫札特, --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeusz, --- Mozart, W.A. --- Mot︠s︡art, Volʹfgang Amadeĭ --- Mot︠s︡art, Iogann-Krizost Volʹfgang Gotlib --- Mozart, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus --- Mozart, Wolfgango Amadeo --- Mocartas, V. A. --- Motsart, Volphnkank Amedaios --- Mot︠s︡art, Volfang Amadeus --- Mozzart, Apollo --- Mozart, Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Amadeus --- Mozart, Johannes Chrisostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus --- Mozhate --- Моцарт, Вольфганг Амадей --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeusz --- Händel

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