Handel Messiah

Name: Handel Messiah
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ISBN: 9780521376204

ISBN-10: 0521376203

ISBN-13: 9780521376204

Edition: 1991

Authors: Donald Burrows, Julian Rushton

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This new guide to Handels most celebrated work traces the course of Messiah from Handels initial musical response to the libretto, through the oratorios 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 Handels performers. As well as tracing the history of the works development, the book addresses musical and technical issues such as Messiahs place in the oratorio genre, Handels treatment of structural…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/24/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 140
Size: 6.22" wide x 8.66" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Preface


References to 'Messiah' editions



The historical background


Handel in Germany and Italy: passion and oratorio


Esther, Handel's first English oratorio


1732-1741: from Esther to Messiah



From composition to first performance


The librettist


The collaboration


August-November 1741: from London to Dublin


The Dublin performances


The music and soloists in Handel's Dublin performances



The first London performances


The music of Handel's 1743 performances



Revival and revision, 1743-1759


The 1745 revival


1749-1753: Covent Garden and the Foundling Hospital


1754-1759: Handel's last years


Handel's revisions: aesthetic choice or practical necessity?


The early revisions


Handel's later revisions and the 1750 version


Versions for modern performances



Messiah in other hands


The nineteenth century


Additional accompaniments


To the present day



Design


Messiah within the oratorio genre


The libretto: structure and content


Musical forms in Messiah: some general considerations


Part Two 'scene' I



Individual movements


Recitatives


Arias


Choruses


The orchestra's contribution



Handel's word-setting



The libretto of Messiah



Messiah sources


Notes


Bibliography


Index