David Kimbell

Handel on the Stage

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Produktbeschreibung

David Kimbell sets Handel's operas in their biographical and cultural contexts, exploring drama, music and styles of performance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 447g
• ISBN-13: 9780521521604
• ISBN-10: 0521521602
• Artikelnr.: 54640370

Autorenporträt

David Kimbell is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism (Cambridge, 1981), Italian Opera (Cambridge, 1991) and Vincenzo Bellini: Norma (Cambridge, 1998). He has also contributed to The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia, The Cambridge History of Italian Literature and The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature, and has edited volumes for Hallische Händel-Ausgabe and Works of Giuseppe Verdi.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Handel and opera - a biographical survey of the circumstances
2. The libretto (1) - argument - dramatis personae
3. The libretto (2) - words for music
4. The music (1) - mastering the medium
5. The music (2) - its role in the drama
6. Aspects of the performance of Handelian opera in his time and in ours
Appendix: an overview of the repertory of the Royal Academy of Music.