The Cambridge Companion to Handel (Cambridge Companions to Music) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521456134 ISBN 13: 9780521456135

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Handel is recognized as one of the principal creative figures in Baroque music. In this Companion acknowledged experts on Handel make their expertise accessible to the interested general reader and music lover. All the genres in which Handel composed are considered including oratorio, chamber cantata, opera, and church music, as well as works for the keyboard and orchestra. The wide-ranging essays cover topics from Handel's composing methods to his treatment of the Italian language and matters of performance practice.

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Review:

'... condenses the current state of knowledge on various topics and the fruits of very recent research, some of it original and some of it now made available for the first time in English.' The Handel Institute Newsletter

'... both scholarly yet eminently readable and, as such, it s a book that will undoubtedly have wide appeal to both musical scholars and the ordinary music lover ... it places its subject firmly in historical context and gives us many (otherwise all too rare) glimpses into the mind of one of the truly great composers'. Scenario

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0521456134
• ISBN 13: 9780521456135
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Burrows Donald