Handel's oratorios and eighteenth-century thought

To chci

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. … celý popis

Podrobná bibliografie

Hlavní autor

Ruth Smith, 1947-

Typ dokumentu

Knihy

Fyzický popis

xiv, 484 s. ; 23 cm

Vydáno

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c1995

Vydání

1st publ.

Témata

Händel, Georg Friedrich, > 1685-1759

18. století

oratoria > Německo > 18. stol.

studie

Bibliografie

Rejstřík
Bibliogr. na s. 438-466

ISBN

0-521-40265-4