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| Author | : Hugo Anthony Meynell |
| Publisher | : Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Music |
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Exploring how Handel's operas have become outstanding expressions of the opera tradition as it had developed to the late 18th century, this text contains detailed consideration of Handel's work between 1705 and 1741.
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| Release | : 2010 |
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| Author | : Hugo Anthony Meynell |
| Publisher | : Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Music |
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Exploring how Handel's operas have become outstanding expressions of the opera tradition as it had developed to the late 18th century, this text contains detailed consideration of Handel's work between 1705 and 1741.
| Author | : Donna Leon |
| Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2011-04-05 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0802194907 |
A “real tour de force” exploring the mythic history of animals in Handel’s operas complete with illustrations and audio recordings of the composer’s arias (News—Austria). When New York Times–bestselling novelist Donna Leon isn’t writing her Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries, she often listens to her favorite composer, George Frideric Handel. Leon noticed that Handel frequently references animals in his music. In his arias, Handel explores the perceived virtues and vices of the lion, bee, nightingale, snake, elephant, and tiger, among others. With this in mind, Leon combined her knowledge of medieval bestiaries—illustrated collections of animal stories—with her love of Handel. In Handel’s Bestiary, Leon traces twelve animals through history, mythology, and Handel’s arias. Each chapter is joined by original illustrations by German painter Michael Sowa. And in this enhanced edition, music is included from conductor Alan Curtis and his orchestra, Il Complesso Barocco.
| Author | : Sarah Yuill McCleave |
| Publisher | : University Rochester Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1580464203 |
Examines the pivotal role of dance in the Italian operas of Handel, perhaps the greatest opera composer between Monteverdi and Mozart. George Frideric Handel set himself apart from his contemporaries by employing choreographed instrumental music to complement and reinforce the emotional impact of his operas. Of his fifty-three operas, no fewer than fourteen -- including ten written for the London stage -- feature dances. Dance in Handel's London Operas explores the relationship between music, drama, and dance in these London works, dispelling the notion that dance was a largely peripheral element in Italian-language operas prior to those of Gluck. Taking a chronological approach, Sarah McCleave examines operas written throughout various periods in Handel's life, beginning with his early London operas, including his time at the Royal Music Academy and the "Sallé" operas of the 1730s, and concluding with his unstaged dramatic opera Alceste (1750). In considering the various influences on Handel (particularly the London stage), McCleave blends analysis of information from eighteenth-century treatises with that found in more modern studies, offering an informed and imaginative understanding of the role dance played in the work of this major figure --one who remained responsive throughout his career to the vital and innovative theatrical environment in which he worked. Sarah McCleave is a lecturer at The School of Creative Arts at Queen's University Belfast.
| Author | : Ellen T. Harris |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 2004-09-30 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780674015982 |
Handel wrote over 100 cantatas, compositions for voice and instruments decsribing the joy and pain of love. In the first comprehensive study of the cantatas, Harris investigates their place in Handel's life as well as their extraordinary beauty.
| Author | : Nathan Link |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 2023-03-10 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0197651364 |
What should we consider when thinking about the relationship between an onstage performance and the story the performance tells? A Poetics of Handel's Operas explores this question by analyzing the narratives of Handel's operas in relation to the rich representational fabric of performance used to convey them. Nathan Link notes that in most storytelling genres, the audience can naturally discern between a story and the way that story is represented: with film, for example, the viewer would recognize that a character hears neither her own voiceover nor the ambient music that accompanies it, whereas in discussions of opera, some audiences may be distracted by the seemingly artificial nature of such conventions as characters singing their dialogue. Link proposes that when engaging with opera, distinguishing between the performance we see and hear on the stage and the story represented offers a meaningful approach to engaging with and interpreting the work. Handel's operas are today the most-performed works in the Baroque opera seria tradition. This genre, with its intricate dramaturgy and esoteric conventions, stands to gain much from an investigation into the relationships between the onstage performance and the story to which that performance directs us. In his analysis, Link offers theoretical studies on opera and narratological theories of literature, drama, and film, providing rich engagement with Handel's work and what it conveys about the relationship between text, story, and performance.
| Author | : Jane Glover |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 423 |
| Release | : 2018-12-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1681779471 |
In 1712, a young German composer followed his princely master to London and would remain there for the rest of his life. That master would become King George II and the composer was George Freidrich Handel. Handel, then still only twenty-seven and largely self-taught, would be at the heart of music activity in London for the next four decades, composing masterpiece after masterpiece, whether the glorious coronation anthem, Zadok the Priest, operas such as Rinaldo and Alcina or the great oratorios, culminating, of course, in Messiah. Here, Jane Glover, who has conducted Handel’s work in opera houses and concert halls throughout the world, draws on her profound understanding of music and musicians to tell Handel’s story. It is a story of music-making and musicianship, but also of courts and cabals of theatrical rivalries and of eighteenth-century society. It is also, of course the story of some of the most remarkable music ever written, music that has been played and sung, and loved, in this country—and throughout the world—for three hundred years.
| Author | : Ellen T. Harris |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2014-09-29 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0393245896 |
During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel’s music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself—known to most as the composer of Messiah—is a bit of a mystery. Though he took meticulous care of his musical manuscripts and even provided for their preservation on his death, very little of an intimate nature survives. One document—Handel’s will—offers us a narrow window into his personal life. In it, he remembers not only family and close colleagues but also neighborhood friends. In search of the private man behind the public figure, Ellen T. Harris has spent years tracking down the letters, diaries, personal accounts, legal cases, and other documents connected to these bequests. The result is a tightly woven tapestry of London in the first half of the eighteenth century, one that interlaces vibrant descriptions of Handel’s music with stories of loyalty, cunning, and betrayal. With this wholly new approach, Harris has achieved something greater than biography. Layering the interconnecting stories of Handel’s friends like the subjects and countersubjects of a fugue, Harris introduces us to an ambitious, shrewd, generous, brilliant, and flawed man, hiding in full view behind his public persona.
| Author | : Winton Dean |
| Publisher | : Berkeley : University of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 1969 |
| Genre | : Music |
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