Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought [Hardcover]

Ruth Smith (Author)

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Hardcover: 500 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (May 26 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521402654
ISBN-13: 978-0521402651
Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.6 x 0.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 812 g

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"The book presents research on the English social and cultural contexts of Handel's oratorios, topics usually treated as peripheral in traditional studies, which relate his librettos primarily to their musical settings." Choice

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In this wide-ranging and challenging book, Ruth Smith shows that the words of Handel's oratorios reflect the events and ideas of their time and have far greater meaning than has hitherto been realized. She sheds new light on the oratorio librettists and explores literature, music, aesthetics, politics and religion to reveal Handel's texts as conduits for eighteenth-century thought and sensibility. This book enriches our understanding of Handel, his times, and the relationships between music and its intellectual contexts.

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The printed libretto - the wordbook - was an indispensable part of attendance at the oratorio. Read the first page

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