Handel's Oratorio
Handel's Oratorio

Author: Edward Cuthbert Bairstow

Publisher: London : Oxford University Press ; H. Milford

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13:

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Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought
Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought

Author: Ruth Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-05-04

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 0521402654

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In this wide-r anging and challenging book, Ruth Smith claims that the words to Handel's oratorios reflect the events and ideas of their time and have far greater meaning than has hitherto been realised. She explores eighteenth-century literature, music, aesthetics, politics and religion to reveal Handel's texts as conduits for the thought and sensibility of their time. The book thus enriches our understanding of Handel, his times, and the close relationship between music and its intellectual contexts.

Handel's Israelite Oratorio Libretti
Handel's Israelite Oratorio Libretti

Author: Deborah W. Rooke

Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)

Published: 2012-02-23

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0199279284

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Combining the insights of present-day biblical studies with those of Handelian studies, this book examines the libretti of ten of Handel's Israelite oratorios and evaluates the relationship between each libretto and the biblical story on which it is based.