Handel's Muse by David Ross Hurley
This book represents the most thorough study to date of Handel's compositional procedures in his English oratorios and musical dramas. Exploring the composer's sketches and autograph scores, it offers fresh insights into the creative mind of one of the leading figures in Baroque music.-
Time in Indian Music
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Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
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Haydn and the Enlightenment
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Climb Into the Bell Tower
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Music Criticism in Vienna 1896-1897
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The Chromatic Fourth During Four Centuries of Music
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Haydn's Keyboard Music
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Henry Lawes
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The Finale in Western Instrumental Music
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Handel and his Singers
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Music in Renaissance Ferrara, 1400-1505
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Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France
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The Service-Books of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis
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Songs of Mortals, Dialogues of the Gods
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Music in the English Courtly Masque, 1604-1640
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Fortepianos and their Music
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The Oratorio in Bologna 1650-1730
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The Sound of Medieval Song
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North German Church Music in the Age of Buxtehude
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Celestial Sirens
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Mensuration and Proportion Signs
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Four and Twenty Fiddlers
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The Music of Hans Pfitzner
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Music Theory in Seventeenth-Century England
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Agostino Agazzari and Music at Siena Cathedral, 1597-1641
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Satie the Bohemian
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Haydn's Symphonic Forms
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Salamone Rossi
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Born for the Muses
It would be hard to overstate the value of this excellent bookIn having the courage to go right back to the unfashionable sources, David Ross Hurley has blown away a number of Handelian cobwebs, and raised substantial questions for future research. * Music and Letters *
A detailed investigation of Handel's revisions to librettos leads effectively into the chapter 'Musical Imagery as Drama', which may be seen as the book's most brilliant section. * Music and Letters *
This book is the first extended study of multiple aspects (including borrowing) of Handel's compositional methods ... Hurley brings to this study an intimate knowledge of all the relevant sources. * Music and Letters *
This is a solid and immensely stimulating contribution to Handelian scholarship - and in an area so far little explored. As such, it deserves a warm welcome. * H. Diack Johnstone, Early Music *
I put the book down feeling grateful to have learned so much more than I already knew about the composer and his working methods. * H. Diack Johnstone, Early Music *
This impressive piece of scholarship rests comfortably on a generous-spirited, thorough knowledge of the relevent literature. It nicely fills a vacuum ... Hurley provides sensible, perceptive analyses of how Handel actually wrote his scores ... Ample, helpful scholarly apparatus; clear and nicely pointed prose. Excellent! * W. Metcalfe, emeritus, University of Vermont *
A detailed investigation of Handel's revisions to librettos leads effectively into the chapter 'Musical Imagery as Drama', which may be seen as the book's most brilliant section. * Music and Letters *
This book is the first extended study of multiple aspects (including borrowing) of Handel's compositional methods ... Hurley brings to this study an intimate knowledge of all the relevant sources. * Music and Letters *
This is a solid and immensely stimulating contribution to Handelian scholarship - and in an area so far little explored. As such, it deserves a warm welcome. * H. Diack Johnstone, Early Music *
I put the book down feeling grateful to have learned so much more than I already knew about the composer and his working methods. * H. Diack Johnstone, Early Music *
This impressive piece of scholarship rests comfortably on a generous-spirited, thorough knowledge of the relevent literature. It nicely fills a vacuum ... Hurley provides sensible, perceptive analyses of how Handel actually wrote his scores ... Ample, helpful scholarly apparatus; clear and nicely pointed prose. Excellent! * W. Metcalfe, emeritus, University of Vermont *
David Ross Hurley is Assistant Professor of Music at Pittsburg State University
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198163961 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198163967 |
| Title | Handel's Muse |
| Author | David Ross Hurley |
| Series | Oxford Monographs On Music |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2001-02-08 |
| Number of pages | 310 |
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