Download or read book The Lives of George Frideric Handel written by David Hunter and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have Handel's 'lives' in biographies and histories moulded our understanding of the musician, the man and the icon?
Download or read book George Frederic Handel written by Newman Flower and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Frideric Handel written by Newman Flower and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book G F Handel written by Mary Ann Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baroque composer George Frideric Handel easily ranks among the world's greatest composers. The first edition of this research guide on Handel appeared in 1988; since that time a great deal of scholarly work has been published on Handel and related areas, including the discovery of a hitherto unknown work. New general resources such as the New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), electronic resources such as the RISM libretto catalogue online, and the study of Handel's continuing popularity as evidenced by the new Handel House Museum in London and Handel practice around the world (e.g., Messiah and millennium celebrations in Tonga, singalong Messiahs etc.) are incorporated into this revised edition of the Handel guide.
Download or read book Handel Who Knew What He Liked written by M. T. Anderson and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this biography, the man who would later compose some of the world's most beautiful music is shown to have once been a stubborn little boy with a mind of his own.
Download or read book The New Grove Handel written by Winton Dean and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of Handel by Winton Dean, who has long been recognized as the leading expert on the composer and his works, the operas and oratorios in particular. It charts his career both before and after he moved to England and pays particular attention to his stage works. Book jacket.
Download or read book The Faber Pocket Guide to Handel written by Edward Blakeman and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Faber Pocket Guide to Handel offers a detailed but accessible exploration of George Frederick Handel, his composition, and his legacy. A larger-than-life figure in his time, Handel's reputation has been less than steady since his death in 1759. Was he (in the words of Berlioz) just 'a great barrel of pork and beer', or (as Handel himself claimed) truly 'the master of us all'? Now, more than 250 years after his death, there is more interest in Handel than ever before, with his operas (such as Rinaldo and Agrippina) experiencing fantastic renewed popularity. This lively new Pocket Guide goes in search of the composer who wrote the Messiah, Water Music - and much more. Handy for browsing and reference, key features include: - Handel's life: year by year - Handel's operas: a complete guide - Essential Handel - Picturing Handel - Handel on CD and DVD - Handel Online Edward Blakeman assesses how Handel's works - incredibly influential in their context of baroque music - have stood the test of time and why they can still speak thrillingly to us today. With recommendations throughout for listening, further reading, and web surfing, this is the ideal guide for music lovers who want to discover the great composer for themselves.
Download or read book Composers in the Movies written by John C. Tibbetts and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amadeus . . . Yankee Doodle Dandy . . . Swanee River . . . Rhapsody in Blue. Even before movies had sound, filmmakers dramatized the lives of composers. Movie biographies—or biopics—have depicted composers as diverse as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George M. Cohan, Stephen Foster, and George Gershwin. In this enticing book, the first devoted entirely to such films, John C. Tibbetts surveys different styles and periods from the Hollywood of the 1920s and 1930s to the international cinema of today, exploring the role that film biographies play in our understanding of history and culture. Tibbetts delves into such questions as: How historically accurate are composer biopics? How and why have inaccuracies and distortions been perpetrated? What strategies have been used to represent visually the creative process? The book examines the films in several contexts and considers their role in commodifying and popularizing music. Extensive archival research, dozens of illustrations, and numerous interviews make this an appealing book for film and music enthusiasts at all levels.
Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of Richard Wagner Volume 1 1813 1848 written by Ernest Newman and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-08-14 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From renowned music critic and musicologist Ernest Newman comes the first of four volumes chronicling the life of legendary German composer Richard Wagner. This first volume takes us through the early years of Richard’s life: his birth in Leipzig; his childhood in Dresden and the sparks of his interest in music, opera, and theater; his musical education, including his studies at University of Leipzig; his early career, accompanied by his first compositions and first money troubles; and his six years spent in Dresden, including his involvement in left-wing politics. Originally published between 1933 and 1947, Newman’s The Life of Richard Wagner, Volumes I-IV remains a classic work of biography. The culmination of forty years' research on the composer and his works, these books present a detailed portrait of perhaps the most influential, the most controversial and the most frequently reviled composer in the whole history of western music. Newman was aware that no biography can ever claim to be complete or completely accurate: “The biographer can at no stage hope to have reached the final truth. All he can do is to make sure that whatever statement he may make, whatever conclusion he may come to, shall be based on the whole of the evidence available at the time of writing.” In this aim he triumphantly succeeds.
Download or read book Queering the Pitch written by Philip Brett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the first edition of Queering the Pitch was published in early 1994, it was immediately hailed as a landmark and defining work in the new field of Gay Musicology. In light of the explosion of Gay Musicology since 1994, a new edition of Queering the Pitch is timely and needed. In this new work, the editors are including a landmark essay by Philip Brett on Gay Musicology, its history and scope. The essay itself has become a cause celebre, and this will be its first full appearance in print. Along with this new historical essay, the editors are contributing a new introduction that outlines the changes that have occurred over the last decade as Gay Musicology has grown.
Download or read book How Christianity Changed the World written by Alvin J. Schmidt and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Setting Christianity in the context of history and culture, How Christianty Changed the World reveals the full, radical nature of the Christian faith as a shaping force." -- From the jacket.
Download or read book The 17th and 18th Centuries written by Frank N. Magill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 1534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.
Download or read book George Frideric Handel written by Marian Van Til and published by WordPower Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents a view of Handels life--his character, faith and music--as his contemporaries saw him.
Download or read book Studies in Music written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Monthly Musical Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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