Author : Ben Finane
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category : Music
ISBN :
This is Handel's massive drama of human redemption and the most popular oratorio in the history of Western music. After 250 years (1741), it has the power to move listeners spiritually and musically. Drawing from both Testaments, Handel's Messiah has spawned groups of listeners dedicated to its performance. Musically, Messiah ranges from madrigal to aria, with an unvarying transparency of expression, imbued with humility and grace.
Author : Ruth Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 1995-05-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521402654
In this wide-r anging and challenging book, Ruth Smith claims that the words to Handel's oratorios reflect the events and ideas of their time and have far greater meaning than has hitherto been realised. She explores eighteenth-century literature, music, aesthetics, politics and religion to reveal Handel's texts as conduits for the thought and sensibility of their time. The book thus enriches our understanding of Handel, his times, and the close relationship between music and its intellectual contexts.
Author : Watkins Shaw
Publisher : Novello & Co Ltd.
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 38,33 MB
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1783230584
G. F. Handel: Messiah, a sacred oratorio arranged for SATB with piano part, is presented here by Novello, edited with piano reduction by Watkins Shaw.
Author : Donald Burrows
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 34,91 MB
Release : 1991-06-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521376204
This new guide to Handel's most celebrated work traces the course of Messiah from Handel's initial musical response to the libretto, through the oratorio's turbulent first years to its eventual popularity with the Foundling Hospital performances. Different chapters consider the varying reception the work received in Dublin and London, the uneasy relationship between the composer and his librettist Charles Jennens and the many changes Messiah underwent through the varying needs and capacities of Handel's performers. As well as tracing the history of the work's development, the book addresses musical and technical issues such as Messiah's place in the oratorio genre, Handel's treatment of structural design, tonal relationships and English word-setting. An edited libretto elucidates the variants between the text that Handel set and the texts of the early printed word-books. Donald Burrows brings many new insights to this fascinating account of one of the favourite works of the concert hall.
Author : N. Alan Clark
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 31,1 MB
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781940771335
Music moves through time; it is not static. In order to appreciate music wemust remember what sounds happened, and anticipate what sounds might comenext. This book takes you on a journey of music from past to present, from the Middle Ages to the Baroque Period to the 20th century and beyond!
Author : George Frideric Handel
Publisher : G Schirmer, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 1986-11
Category :
ISBN : 9780793555802
Choral Large Works
Author : Calvin Stapert
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780802865878
Handel s oratorio Messiah is a phenomenon with no parallel in music history. No other work of music has been so popular for so long. Yet familiarity can sometimes breed contempt and also misunderstanding. This book by music expert Calvin Stapert will greatly increase understanding and appreciation of Handel s majestic Messiah, whether readers are old friends of this remarkable work or have only just discovered its magnificence. Stapert provides fascinating historical background, tracing not only Messiah s unlikely inception but also its amazing reception throughout history. The bulk of the book offers scene-by-scene musical and theological commentary on the whole work, focusing on the way Handel s music beautifully interprets and illuminates the biblical text. For anyone seeking to appreciate Handel s Messiah more, this informed yet accessible guide is the book to have and read. (Handel s Messiah: Comfort for God s People is the newest volume in the flourishing Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Liturgical Studies Series, edited by John D. Witvliet.)
Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521663199
The eighteenth century arguably boasts a more remarkable group of significant musical figures, and a more engaging combination of genres, styles and aesthetic orientations than any century before or since, yet huge swathes of its musical activity remain under-appreciated. This History provides a comprehensive survey of eighteenth-century music, examining little-known repertories, works and musical trends alongside more familiar ones. Rather than relying on temporal, periodic and composer-related phenomena to structure the volume, it is organized by genre; chapters are grouped according to the traditional distinctions of music for the church, music for the theatre and music for the concert room that conditioned so much thinking, activity and output in the eighteenth century. A valuable summation of current research in this area, the volume also encourages the readers to think of eighteenth-century music less in terms of overtly teleological developments than of interacting and mutually stimulating musical cultures and practices.
Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300206992
Every Easter, audiences across the globe thrill to performances of Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus,” but they would probably be appalled to learn the full extent of the oratorio’s anti-Judaic message. In this pioneering study, respected musicologist Michael Marissen examines Handel’s masterwork and uncovers a disturbing message of anti-Judaism buried within its joyous celebration of the divinity of the Christ. Discovering previously unidentified historical source materials enabled the author to investigate the circumstances that led to the creation of the Messiah and expose the hateful sentiments masked by magnificent musical artistry—including the famed “Hallelujah Chorus,” which rejoices in the “dashing to pieces” of God’s enemies, among them the “people of Israel.” Marissen’s fascinating, provocative work offers musical scholars and general readers alike an unsettling new appreciation of one of the world’s best-loved and most widely performed works of religious music.
Author : George Frideric Handel
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 1999-08-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457481642
Expertly arranged Choral for SATB with SATB Soli by George Frideric Handel from the Kalmus Edition series. This Choral is from the Baroque era.
