J.S. Bach and the oratorio tradition /

Table of Contents: “…Melamed -- Drama and discourse : the form and function of chorale tropes in Bach's oratorios / Markus Rathey -- Oratorio on five afternoons : from the Lübeck Abendmusiken to Bach's Christmas oratorio / Kerala J. …”
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"When the morning stars sang" : essays in honor of Choon Leong Seow on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday /

Table of Contents: “…The book of Job and two twentieth-century British oratorios /…”
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Handel and the English Chapel Royal / by Burrows, Donald, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The Chapel Royal and Handel's Oratorios --…”
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A treasury of early music : an anthology of masterworks of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Baroque era /

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Experiencing Schumann : a listener's companion / by Sanders, Donald C., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…The Piano Music -- The Songs -- The Chamber Music -- The Orchestral Music -- The Narrative Works: Oratorio and Opera.…”
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Cather and opera / by Powell, David McKay

Table of Contents: “…and My Ántonia -- CHAPTER 7 Bitter Contempt: The Song of the Lark and Cather's Wagnerism -- CHAPTER 8 Opera Incognita: Later Novels -- Conclusion -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- APPENDIX 1 A List of Operas and Oratorios Mentioned in Fiction by Willa Cather -- APPENDIX 2 Operas and Oratorios in Cather's Work.…”
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Johann Joseph Fux and the music of the Austro-Italian Baroque /

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Johann Joseph Fux und die Gegenwart -- chapter 2 The Fux Tradition and the Mystery of the Music Archive at Melk Abbey -- chapter 3 Johann Joseph Fux's Theoretical Writings: a Classical Legacy -- chapter 4 Zur Unvollstandigkeit und denkbaren Anlage der Gradus von Fux -- chapter 5 The Chalumeau in the Works of Fux -- chapter 6 The Use of Wind Instruments (excluding Chalumeau) in Fux's Music -- chapter 7 Zur Datierung der Triosonaten und Anderer Werke von Fux -- chapter 8 The Secular-Dramatic Compositions of Fux: a General Survey -- chapter 9 The Literary and Dramaturgical Aspects of the Viennese Sepolcro Oratorio, with Particular Reference to Fux -- chapter 10 The Sepolcro Oratorios of Fux: an Assessment -- chapter 11 Bemerkungen zu den Kompositionen von Johann Joseph Fux zum Offertorium -- chapter 12 Bibliographie des Fux-Schrifttums/A Fux Bibliography.…”
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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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Handel / by Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Table of Contents; List of Plates; HIS LIFE ; HIS TECHNIQUE AND WORKS ; (1) THE OPERAS ; (2) THE ORATORIOS ; (3) THE CLAVIER COMPOSITIONS…”
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Understanding Ian McEwan / by Malcolm, David, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Understanding Ian McEwan -- The short stories : First love, last rites and In between the sheets -- Fiction and evil (I) : The cement garden -- Fiction and evil (II) : The comfort of strangers -- Change, dystopia, and the way out : The child in time -- Brushes with history (I) : The innocent -- Brushes with history (II) : Black dogs -- Science and fictions : Enduring love -- Other works : screenplays, the oratorio, children's fiction, and Amsterdam.…”
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Bach's numbers : compositional proportion and significance / by Tatlow, Ruth

Table of Contents: “…Bach's numbers -- Symmetry, proportion and parallels -- Unity, proportions and universal harmony in Bach's world -- Bars, compositional planning and proportional parallelism -- Three collections for strings -- Four in two collections for keyboard -- Two further collections for keyboard -- Two small late collections -- Two large late collections -- Collections of concertos -- Collections of organ works -- Great passions and cantatas -- Festive cut-and-paste projects : masses and oratorios -- Lost blueprints.…”
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Bach Perspectives, Volume 12 : Bach and the Counterpoint of Religion /

Table of Contents: “…Stockigt -- Bach's Christmas oratorio and the mystical theology of Bernard of Clairvaux / by Markus Rathey -- The church under persecution : Bach's Cantatas for the fourth Sunday after Epiphany / by Derek Stauff -- Music historicism : Sara Levy and the Jewish enlightenment / by Rebecca Cypress.…”
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Bach and the counterpoint of religion /

Table of Contents: “…Stockigt -- Bach's Christmas oratorio and the mystical theology of Bernard of Clairvaux / by Markus Rathey -- The church under persecution : Bach's Cantatas for the fourth Sunday after Epiphany / by Derek Stauff -- Music historicism : Sara Levy and the Jewish enlightenment / by Rebecca Cypress.…”
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Music and the exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart / by Locke, Ralph P.

Table of Contents: “…Courtly ballets ; Distinctive developments in Venice and other Italian cities and courts ; Oratorio and other religious genres ; Early opera and partly sung stage works ; French and Italian serious opera, especially Lully and Handel ; Eighteenth-century comic operas and short danced works -- Obsession with the Middle East : from the Parisian fairs to Mozart.…”

Music and the exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart / by Locke, Ralph P.

Table of Contents: “…Courtly ballets ; Distinctive developments in Venice and other Italian cities and courts ; Oratorio and other religious genres ; Early opera and partly sung stage works ; French and Italian serious opera, especially Lully and Handel ; Eighteenth-century comic operas and short danced works -- Obsession with the Middle East : from the Parisian fairs to Mozart.…”
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Convent music and politics in eighteenth-century Vienna / by Page, Janet K., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Jakob auf der Hülben -- Court, music, and counter-reformation education in an Ursuline convent -- "A virtual picture of Arcadia" : musical entertainments for Leopold I and Joseph I -- Commedia dell-arte, talking animals, and the three Marys : passion music in Viennese convents -- Convents, music, and Habsburg rule in eighteenth-century Vienna -- Appendix 1: Plays, oratorios, cantatas, sepolcri, and feste teatrali performed in Viennese convents ca. 1660-1774 -- Appendix 2: Selected documents -- Appendix 3: The Habsburgs and their family connections -- Appendix 4: Glossary of terms and titles.…”
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Music in north-east England, 1500-1800 /

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- CENTRES OF MUSICAL ACTIVITY -- 1 All Mynstralles betwene the Ryvers of Trent & amp -- Twede -- 2 The Soundscape of Pre-Reformation Newcastle Upon Tyne -- 3 Handel's English Odes and Oratorios -- 4 Compositional Activity in Durham City, 1750-1810 -- 5 Edward Miller, Social Networking and Music-Making -- SOURCES -- 6 The York Antiphonal -- 7 The Blakiston Manuscript -- 8 Durham Hill's The Cashaway Psalmody -- RECREATION AND EDUCATION -- 9 Schoolboy Performance -- 10 Amateur Music-Making among the Mercantile Community -- 11 The Household Band of the Bowes of Gibside -- PRINT AND POPULAR SONG -- 12 William Shield's A Collection of Favourite Songs (c.1775) -- 13 Print and Popular Songs in Eighteenth-Century Newcastle -- 14 Marshall's Musical Metropolis of North Britain -- Select Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Bach and Mozart : essays on the enigma of genius / by Marshall, Robert Lewis

Table of Contents: “…Bach at the crossroads of cultural history -- Bach at midlife : the Christmas Oratorio and the search for a new paths -- Bach at the boundaries of music history : preliminary reflections on the B-minor mass and the late-style paradigm -- Father and sons : confronting a uniquely daunting paternal legacy -- Johann Christian Bach and Eros -- Bach and Mozart : styles of musical genius -- Mozart and Amadeus -- Bach and Mozart's artistic maturity -- Mozart's unfinished : some lessons of the fragments -- Epilogue (ossia Postmortem) : had Mozart lived longer -- some cautious (and incautious) speculations.…”
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Bach and Mozart : essays on the enigma of genius / by Marshall, Robert Lewis

Table of Contents: “…Bach at the crossroads of cultural history -- Bach at mid-life : the Christmas oratorio and the search for new paths -- Bach at the boundaries of music history : preliminary reflections on the B-minor Mass and the late-style paradigm -- Father and sons : confronting a uniquely daunting paternal legacy -- Johann Christian Bach and Eros -- Bach and Mozart : styles of musical genius -- Mozart and Amadeus -- Bach and Mozart's artistic maturity -- Mozart's unfinished : some lessons of the fragments -- Epilogue (ossia Postmortem): Had Mozart lived longer : some cautious (and incautious) speculations.…”

Dying for the faith, killing for the faith : Old-Testament faith-warriors (Maccabees 1 and 2) in historical perspective /

Table of Contents: “…"If to Fall, for Laws, Religion, Liberty, We Fall": Georg Frideric Handel's Maccabee OratoriosThe Reception of an Unread Author: Zacharias Werner's "Mother of the Maccabees"; Index of Names; Index of Biblical Citations.…”
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