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Author : Annette Landgraf
Release : 2009-11-26
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia by : Annette Landgraf
Download or read book The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia written by Annette Landgraf. This book was released on 2009-11-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Arias to Zadok the Priest - over 700 entries by international experts explore all aspects of Handel's life and work.
Author : David Vickers
Release : 2017-07-05
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 242/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Handel by : David Vickers
Download or read book Handel written by David Vickers. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology represents scholarly literature devoted to Handel over the last few decades, and contains different kinds of studies of the composer's biography, operatic career, singers, librettists, and his relationship with the music of other composers. Case studies range from recent research that transforms our knowledge of large-scale English works to an interdisciplinary exploration of an individual opera aria. Designed to bring easy and convenient access to students, performers and music lovers, the wide-ranging articles are selected by David Vickers (co-editor of the recent Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia) from diverse sources - not only familiar important journals, but also specialist yearbooks, festschrifts, not easily accessible newsletters, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues. Many of these represent an up-to-date understanding of modern Handel studies, deal with fascinating biographical issues (such as the composer's art collection, his chronic health problems, and the nature of popular anecdotal evidence), and fill gaps in the mainstream Handelian literature.
Author : David Kimbell
Release : 2016
Genre : Opera
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Book Rating : 454/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Handel on the Stage by : David Kimbell
Download or read book Handel on the Stage written by David Kimbell. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the great composers of the eighteenth century, Handel was the supreme cosmopolitan, an early and extraordinarily successful example of a freelance composer. For thirty years the opera-house was the principal focus of his creative work and he composed more than forty operas over this period. In this book, David Kimbell sets Handel's operas in their biographical and cultural contexts. He explores the circumstances in which they were composed and performed, the librettos that were prepared for Handel, and what they tell us about his and his audience's values and the music he composed for them. Remarkably no Handel operas were staged for a period of 170 years between 1754 and the 1920s. The final chapter in this book reveals the differences and similarities between how Handel's operas were performed in his time and ours.
Author : David Vickers
Release : 2017-07-05
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 250/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Handel by : David Vickers
Download or read book Handel written by David Vickers. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology represents scholarly literature devoted to Handel over the last few decades, and contains different kinds of studies of the composer's biography, operatic career, singers, librettists, and his relationship with the music of other composers. Case studies range from recent research that transforms our knowledge of large-scale English works to an interdisciplinary exploration of an individual opera aria. Designed to bring easy and convenient access to students, performers and music lovers, the wide-ranging articles are selected by David Vickers (co-editor of the recent Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia) from diverse sources - not only familiar important journals, but also specialist yearbooks, festschrifts, not easily accessible newsletters, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues. Many of these represent an up-to-date understanding of modern Handel studies, deal with fascinating biographical issues (such as the composer's art collection, his chronic health problems, and the nature of popular anecdotal evidence), and fill gaps in the mainstream Handelian literature.
Author : Reinhard Strohm
Release : 1985-06-20
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 280/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Essays on Handel and Italian Opera by : Reinhard Strohm
Download or read book Essays on Handel and Italian Opera written by Reinhard Strohm. This book was released on 1985-06-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this valuable collection of essays, published to coincide with the tercentenary of Handel's birth, Reinhard Strohm examines the relationship between Handel's great operas and the earlier European Baroque tradition, focusing on the Italian school, to which they are so crucially indebted. Handel's immediate heritage included the figures of Scarlatti, Gasparini and Vivaldi; this book establishes that context, concentrating on contemporary operatic practice, and proceeds to analyse three of Handel's best-known works. It shows how they elaborate and develop the style and method of the Italian operatic theatre, embracing previous traditions and synthesizing them with a new and exciting accentuation.
