Handel's Oratorio, Samson
Author: George Frideric Handel
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 16
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Handel's Israelite Oratorio Libretti
Author: Deborah W. Rooke
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Published: 2012-02-23
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0199279284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining 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.
Handel's Oratorio, Samson
Author: George Frideric Handel
Publisher:
Published: 1850
Total Pages: 256
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Author: Donald Burrows
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-06-24
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780521376204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new guide to Handel's most celebrated work traces the course of Messiah from Handel's initial musical response to the libretto, through the oratorio's turbulent first years to its eventual popularity with the Foundling Hospital performances. Different chapters consider the varying reception the work received in Dublin and London, the uneasy relationship between the composer and his librettist Charles Jennens and the many changes Messiah underwent through the varying needs and capacities of Handel's performers. As well as tracing the history of the work's development, the book addresses musical and technical issues such as Messiah's place in the oratorio genre, Handel's treatment of structural design, tonal relationships and English word-setting. An edited libretto elucidates the variants between the text that Handel set and the texts of the early printed word-books. Donald Burrows brings many new insights to this fascinating account of one of the favourite works of the concert hall.
Handel and the English Chapel Royal
Author: Donald Burrows
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13: 0198162286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study of Handel's English church music covers well-known works such as 'Zadok the Priest', but also introduces his Chapel Royal music, the result of a close but changing relationship with Britain's Hanoverian royal family. The story of the political background is complemented by an investigation of the circumstances of Handel's performances.
Milton, Rights and Liberties
Author: Neil Forsyth
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9783039112364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn July 14th, 1790, a key figure in the French Revolution honoured Milton as a founding father of the French republic. In the light of this connection, it was appropriate that the 8th International Milton Symposium (7-11 June 2005) was held in Grenoble, cradle of the French Revolution. But the connection of Milton and Rights takes us well beyond the specific link with France, and the fascinating selection of essays assembled in this volume, many by leading Milton scholars, addresses the question in the poetry as well as the prose. Milton's fervent but changing attitude to liberties is debated from various points of view, so that the volume contains essays on topics ranging from the musical adaptations of Samson Agonistes to its angrily argued parallel with contemporary terrorism, from air pollution in Paradise Lost to Milton's supposed Puritanism and putative parallels with a French pornographer.
Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought
Author: Ruth Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-05-04
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 0521402654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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
Author: Donald Burrows
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2012-06-15
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13: 0199737363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHandel was a defining figure of the late Baroque era, perhaps best known for bringing the oratorio form to an English-speaking audience. This insightful study brings to life the glory of his artistry, his elusive personality and the flavour of his time.
Samson
Author: James L. Crenshaw
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780804201704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMusic and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart
Author: Ralph P. Locke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-05-07
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1316298205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the years 1500–1800, European performing arts reveled in a kaleidoscope of Otherness: Middle-Eastern harem women, fortune-telling Spanish 'Gypsies', Incan priests, Barbary pirates, moresca dancers, and more. In this prequel to his 2009 book Musical Exoticism, Ralph P. Locke explores how exotic locales and their inhabitants were characterized in musical genres ranging from instrumental pieces and popular songs to oratorios, ballets, and operas. Locke's study offers new insights into much-loved masterworks by composers such as Cavalli, Lully, Purcell, Rameau, Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck, and Mozart. In these works, evocations of ethnic and cultural Otherness often mingle attraction with envy or fear, and some pieces were understood at the time as commenting on conditions in Europe itself. Locke's accessible study, which includes numerous musical examples and rare illustrations, will be of interest to anyone who is intrigued by the relationship between music and cultural history, and by the challenges of cross-cultural (mis)understanding.
