Format:
XVI, 349 S
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Ill., Notenbeisp
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4°
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9780521454254
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9780521456135
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to music
Content:
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
Content:
Background -- The music -- The music in performance
Note:
Literaturverz. [S. 286 - 330], Werkverz. [S. [331] - 337] und Index
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Literaturangaben
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781139002141
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Cambridge companion to Handel Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997 ISBN 0521456134
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521454255
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Händel, Georg Friedrich 1685-1759
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1017/CCOL9780521454254
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521454254
Author information:
Burrows, Donald 1945-
Author information:
Händel, Georg Friedrich 1685-1759
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