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Handel
Books
 Handel
A look back at the original Handel, providing a portrait of
his life and music that blends the evidence from documents of
all kinds with biographical observation. It contains a chronological
table and traces the Handel legend down to our own time. Handel
Books.
 The
Cambridge Companion to Handel (Cambridge Companions to Music)
Handel is recognised as one of the principal creative figures
in Baroque music. In this Companion acknowledged experts on
Handel make their expertise accessible to the interested general
reader and music lover. All the genres in which Handel composed
are considered including oratorio, chamber cantata, opera, and
church music, as well as works for the keyboard and orchestra.
The wide-ranging, specially-commissioned essays cover topics
from Handel's composing methods to his treatment of the Italian
language and matters of performance practice. The background
to Handel's musical career is a major theme of the volume. The
opening chapters deal with his musical education in Germany
and the circumstances in Italy during his time there. Most of
Handel's career was based in London and important topics here
include contemporary concert life and theatre management, the
British and Italian musicians among whom he worked, and the
librettists for the English oratorios.
 Handel:
Messiah (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
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.
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