Cambridge Companion to Handel (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Burrows, Donald

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Produktbeschreibung

Handel is recognised as one of the principal creative figures in Baroque music. In this Companion acknowledged experts on Handel make their expertise accessible to the interested general reader and music lover. All the genres in which Handel composed are considered including oratorio, chamber cantata, opera, and church music, as well as works for the keyboard and orchestra. The wide-ranging, specially-commissioned essays cover topics from Handel's composing methods to his treatment of the Italian language and matters of performance practice. The background to Handel's musical career is a major theme of the volume. The opening chapters deal with his musical education in Germany and the circumstances in Italy during his time there. Most of Handel's career was based in London and important topics here include contemporary concert life and theatre management, the British and Italian musicians among whom he worked, and the librettists for the English oratorios.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 1997
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139815369
• Artikelnr.: 52992346

Inhaltsangabe

List of plates
Notes on contributors
Preface
Chronology
Introduction Donald Burrows
Part I. Background: 1. Germany - education and apprenticeship John Butt
2. Italy - political and musical contexts Carlo Vitali
3. Handel's London - political, social and intellectual contexts William Weber
4. Handel's London - the theatres Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume
5. Handel's London - British musicians and London concert life H. Diack Johnstone
6. Handel's London - Italian musicians and librettists Lowell Lindgren
7. Handel's London - Handel's English librettists Ruth Smith
Part II. The Music: 8. Handel and the aria C. Steven LaRue
9. Handel's compositional process David Ross Hurley
10. Handel and the idea of an oratorio Anthony Hicks
11. Handel's sacred music Graydon Beeks
12. Handel's chamber music Malcolm Boyd
13. Handel as a concerto composer Donald Burrows
14. Handel and the keyboard Terence Best
Part III. The Music in Performance: 15. Handel and the Italian language Terence Best
16. Handel and the orchestra Mark W. Stahura
17. Production style in Handel's operas Winton Dean
18. Handel's oratorio performances Donald Burrows
Bibliographical note
Notes
List of Handel's works
Index.