Handel and the English Chapel Royal / by Burrows, Donald, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The Chapel Royal and Handel's Oratorios --…”
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Music in eighteenth-century England : essays in memory of Charles Cudworth /

Table of Contents: “…Zimmerman -- "Or rather our musical Shakespeare" : Charles Burney's Purcell / Richard Luckett -- Walsh's editions of Handel's opera 1-5 : the texts and their sources / Donald Burrows -- The recovery of Handel's operas / Winton Dean -- Intellectual contexts of Handel's English oratorios / Ruth Smith -- Handel's successor : notes on John Christopher Smith the younger / Alfred Mann -- The late additions to Handel's oratorios and the role of the younger Smith / Anthony Hicks -- Handel's harpsichord music : a checklist / Terence Best -- New light on the libretto of The creation / Nicholas Temperley -- The English symphony : some additions and annotations to Charles Cudworth's published studies / Jan LaRue -- Thematic index of English symphonies / Charles Cudworth and Jan LaRue -- A bibliography of the writings of Charles Cudworth / Richard Andrewes.…”

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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Music in the London theatre from Purcell to Handel /

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Edward Elgar and his world /

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