[PDF.53cm] Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought

Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought

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 | #1015160 in Books |  2005-10-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x1.10 x5.98l,1.60 | File type: PDF | 500 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent scholarly volume|By Thomas A. Gregg|Ruth Smith is a brilliant scholar and one of the world's leading experts on Handel. This book is unique in Handel studies, detailing many interesting ideas about the political and social meanings in Handel's oratorios as perceived in their day. Highly recommended.| |"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|F

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 relatio...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought   |  Ruth Smith. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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