- Hardcover: 168 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (Dec 19 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0521836360
- ISBN-13: 978-0521836364
- Product Dimensions: 22.3 x 17.7 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 322 g
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- #92 in Books > Entertainment > Music > Musical Genres > Classical > Scores > Composers > Handel
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'Hogwood is a reliable and well-informed guide to this repertory. ... It is a fascinating document.' Early Music
'Christopher Hogwood is one of the leading exponents of this period of music, and there is much to enjoy in [this book] ... that explores both the Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. ... anyone interested in delving more deeply into this intriguing period in the development of English music, can do little better than investing the modest amount in Hogwood's book.' Newsletter, Ipswich Arts Association
'Christopher Hogwood is one of the leading exponents of this period of music, and there is much to enjoy in [this book] ... that explores both the Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. ... anyone interested in delving more deeply into this intriguing period in the development of English music, can do little better than investing the modest amount in Hogwood's book.' Newsletter, Ipswich Arts Association
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This Handbook covers Handel's best known public music, the Water Music, written at the outset of his English career, and the Music for the Royal Fireworks, the last and largest of his orchestral creations. The genesis of the two orchestral suites is examined in its political as well as musical context. Practical questions of performance style and interpretation are balanced by an enquiry into Handel's compositional processes, and the relationship of these pieces to his other large-scale orchestral compositions.
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'I am myself alone' reads the Shakespearian inscription on a scroll decorating Goupy's caricature of Handel as a bewigged and well-dressed hog playing the organ, with the remnants of gluttony evident all around him (Plate 1). Read the first page
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'I am myself alone' reads the Shakespearian inscription on a scroll decorating Goupy's caricature of Handel as a bewigged and well-dressed hog playing the organ, with the remnants of gluttony evident all around him (Plate 1). Read the first page
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