TY - BOOK ID - 28780189 TI - Handel: Messiah PY - 1991 SN - 0521376203 0521374790 9780521374798 9780521376204 9780511620096 1139085557 0511620098 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - 513 KW - Muziekanalyse - vormleer KW - Handel, George Frideric, KW - Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Messiah. KW - 78.21.1 Händel KW - 526.30 KW - Genre- en werkbesprekingen KW - Handel, George Friederich KW - Muziekanalyses KW - Muziekgeschiedenis KW - Messiah KW - Barok KW - Groot-Brittannië KW - Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759) KW - Oratoria KW - 18e eeuw KW - Barokmuziek KW - Analyses UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:28780189 AB - 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. ER -