The Baroque Libretto : Italian operas and oratorios in the thomas fisher library, u of t / by Pietropaolo, Domenico, Parker, Mary Ann

Table of Contents: “…The Collection -- The Opera Libretty -- The Music -- Dance in Italian Opera -- The Oratorio.…”
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The Baroque libretto : Italian operas and oratorios in the Thomas Fisher Library at the University of Toronto / by Pietropaolo, Domenico, 1949-, Parker, Mary Ann, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The Collection -- The Opera Libretty -- The Music -- Dance in Italian Opera -- The Oratorio.…”
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Before the baton : musical direction and conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain / by Holman, Peter, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Directing Choral Music -- 1 'Heard but not Seen': Leading Anglican Cathedral Music from the Organ -- 2 'With a Scroll of Parchment or Paper, in Hand': Large- Scale Choral Music -- 3 'Accompanied all along on the Organ by his Own Inimitable Hand': Handel and the Direction of his Oratorios -- 4 'The Conductor at the Organ': The Oratorio Tradition after Handel…”
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Music in the London theatre from Purcell to Handel /

Table of Contents: “…Purcell's "scurvy" poets / Roger Savage -- Opera as literature and the triumph of music / Martin Adams -- The British enchanters and George Granville's theory of opera / Wolfgang Hirschmann -- Lost chances: obstacles to English opera for Purcell and Handel / Jeffrey Barnouw -- Alexander's feast, or The power of perseverance: Dryden's plan for English opera and its near-fulfilment in a Handel ode / Andrew Pinnock and Bruce Wood -- Ombra mai fu: shades of Greece and Rome in the librettos for Handel's London operas / Peter Brown -- Handel and the uses of antiquity / Reinhard Strohm -- From Metastasio's Alessandro to Handel's Poro: a change of dramatic emphasis / Graham Cummings -- Deidamia as an "Heroi-comi-pastoral" opera / Sarah McCleave -- Seventeenth-century literary classics as eighteenth-century libretto sources: Congreve, Dryden and Milton in the 1730s and 1740s / Matthew Gardner -- "In this ballance seek a character": the role of "il moderato" in L'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato / Ruth Smith -- "Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures": glancing and gazing spectatorship in Handel's L'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato / Matthew Badham -- Accompanied recitative and characterisation in Handel's oratorios / Liam Gorry -- Handel, Charles Jennens and the advent of scriptural oratorio / John H. …”
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