Handel: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks

ISBN-13: 9780521836364 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 168 str.

Christopher Hogwood

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

Preface; 1. The character of the man; 2. Politics and power; 3. Water Music; 4. The 'indebtedness' of Handel; 5. The Concerti a due cori; 6. Politics and peace; 7. Music for the Royal Fireworks; 8. Handel in other hands; 9. Performance parameters; Appendix: Sources of shared material; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.