Handel : tercentenary collection / edited by Stanley Sadie and Anthony Hicks.

Other author Sadie, Stanley editor.
Other author Hicks, Anthony editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoAnn Arbor : UMI Research Press ; Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, ©1987.
Descriptionxi, 308 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesStudies in musicology ; no. 99
Studies in musicology ; no. 99. ^A163772
Contents Research. Scholarship and the Handel revival, 1935-85 ; Sources, resources and Handel studies -- Sources and Influences. Handel and his central German background ; The case for Handel's borrowings: the judgment of three centuries ; Why did Handel borrow? -- The dramatic music and its background ; The staging of Handel's operas in London ; English traditions in Handel's Rinaldo ; The Royal Academy of Music (1719-28) and its directors ; Handel's disengagement from the Italian opera ; New sources for the libretto of Handel's Joseph -- Vocal. 'A club of composers': Handel, Pepusch, and Arbuthnot at Cannons ; Steffani's influence on Handel's camber duets ; Handel's Italian Cantatas ; Some new sources -- Instrumental. The orgins of Handel's opus 3: A historical review ; Handel and the organ concerto: what we know 250 years later ; Interpreting Handel's rhythmic notation-some reflections on modern Practice.
General noteBased on papers presented at a conference held at the Royal Society of Arts, London in July 1985.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographies and indexes.
LCCN 87016238
ISBN0835718336

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