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Handel's Messiah; origins, composition, sources
- Title
- Handel's Messiah; origins, composition, sources / by Jens Peter Larsen.
- Author
- Larsen, Jens Peter, 1902-1988.
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton, [1957]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | ML410.H13 L3 1957 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 336 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, music; 24 cm
- Summary
- This monograph, translated from the original Danish, concentrates on the plan and execution of 'Messiah', its singers and performances, manuscripts and editions, and aesthetics.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Bibliography
- bibliographies.
- Bibliographies
- Manuscripts
- Bibliographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- "List of Handel manuscripts": p. [285]-303. Bibliography: p. 325-327.
- Contents
- The development of Handelian oratorio. Various types of oratorio ; Italian versus English text, the soloist problem, the da capo aria ; The choruses I (St. John's Passion to Athaliah) ; The choruses 2 (Alexander's Feast to Samson) ; The choruses 3 (Semele to Jephtha) -- Messiah surveyed. Introduction: the Messiah text ; First part, overture to "For unto us a Child is born" ; First part, Pastoral Symphony to "His yoke is easy" ; Second part, "Thou art gone up on High" to "Hallelujah" ; Third part -- Changing versions. Handel's oratorio soloists ; The Messiah material ; Changes in individual numbers ; Stages of development, sequence of mss. and printed editions, "definitive" form -- The sources. The copyists ; Paper sizes and watermarks ; List of Handel manuscripts.
- OCLC
- ocm00870751
- 870751
- SCSB-14373646
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library