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.