(Read download) Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought
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| #3208950 in Books | Ruth Smith | 2005-10-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x1.10 x5.98l,1.60 | File Name: 052102370X | 500 pages | Handel s Oratorios and Eighteenth Century Thought
||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent scholarly volume|By Thomas A. Gregg|Ruth Smith is a brilliant scholar and one of the world's leading experts on Handel. This book is unique in Handel studies, detailing many interesting ideas about the political and social meanings in Handel's oratorios as perceived in their day. Highly recommended.||"The book presents research on the English social and cultural contexts of Handel's oratorios, topics usually treated as peripheral in traditional studies, which relate his librettos primarily to their musical settings." Choice|
In this wide-ranging and challenging book, Ruth Smith shows that the words of Handel's oratorios reflect the events and ideas of their time and have far greater meaning than has hitherto been realized. She sheds new light on the oratorio librettists and explores literature, music, aesthetics, politics and religion to reveal Handel's texts as conduits for eighteenth-century thought and sensibility. This book enriches our understanding of Handel, his times, and the relati...
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