| Contents |
Preface -- Handel and Dryden. Poetry and music in eighteenth-century England ; Early musical settings of Alexander's Feast. Jeremiah Clarke (1697) ; Thomas Clayton (1711) ; Benedetto Marcello (1720) -- Handel and Milton. Eighteenth-century musical settings of Milton. L'Allegro, Il penseroso, ed Il moderato (1740) ; Samson (1743) -- Appendix A: Text of Dryden's Alexander Feast, as set to music by Jeremiah Clarke in 1697 ; Appendix B: Text of Dryden's Alexander's Feast, as altered and adapted by John Hughes and set to music by Thomas Clayton in 1711 ; Appendix C: Text of Dryden's Alexander Feast, as altered and adapted by Newburgh Hamilton and set to music by Handel in 1736 ; Appendix D: Text of Dryden's Song for St. Cecilia's Day, as set to music by Giovanni Baptista Draghi in 1687 ; Appendix E: Text of Dryden's Song for St. Cecilia's Day, as altered and adapted by Newburgh Hamilton and set to music by Handel in 1739 ; Appendix F: Text of Handel's L'Allegro, Il penseroso, ed Il moderato, as altered and adapted from Milton's L'Allegro and Il penseroso by Charles Jennens and set to music by Handel in 1740 ; Appendix G: Text of Handel's Samson, as altered and adapted from Milton's Samson Agonistes and minor poems by Newburgh Hamilton and set to music by Handel in 1741 ; Appendix H: Text of Handel's Occasional Oratorio, as adapted (in part) from Milton's Paraphrases of the Psalms by Thomas Morell and set to music by Handel in 1746. |
| General note | Includes libretti of Alexander's feast, as set by Jeremiah Clarke, Thomas Clayton, and Georg Friedrich Handel; of Song for St. Cecilia's day, as set by Giovanni Battista Draghi and G.F. Handel; and of L'allegro, il pensieroso, ed il moderato, Samson, and Occasional oratorio, as set by G.F. Handel. |
