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Handel on the Stage. 9780521818414

Handel on the Stage

Cambridge University Press. 2016

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  • EAN: 9780521818414
  • ISBN: 978-0-521-81841-4
  • Editorial: Cambridge University Press
  • Fecha de edición: 2016
  • Encuadernación: Cartoné
  • Dimensiones: 17x24
  • Idioma: Inglés
  • Nº páginas: 226

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Of all the great composers of the eighteenth century, Handel was the supreme cosmopolitan, an early and extraordinarily successful example of a freelance composer. For thirty years the opera-house was the principal focus of his creative work and he composed more than forty operas over this period. In this book, David Kimbell sets Handel's operas in their biographical and cultural contexts. He explores the circumstances in which they were composed and performed, the librettos that were prepared for Handel, and what they tell us about his and his audience's values and the music he composed for them. Remarkably no Handel operas were staged for a period of 170 years between 1754 and the 1920s. The final chapter in this book reveals the differences and similarities between how Handel's operas were performed in his time and ours.

- Places Handel's life in the context of the multidisciplinary art of opera
- Examines the working relationship between composer, librettists and performers, and what this tells us about the values of Handel's age
- Encourages a fuller understanding of Handel's operas and assesses the impact of this upon modern stagings and revivals


CONTENIDO:

Preface

1. Handel and opera ? a biographical survey of the circumstances
2. The libretto (1) ? argument ? dramatis personae
3. The libretto (2) ? words for music
4. The music (1) ? mastering the medium
5. The music (2) ? its role in the drama
6. Aspects of the performance of Handelian opera in his time and in ours

Appendix: an overview of the repertory of the Royal Academy of Music.



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