Music in Eighteenth-Century England

Essays in Memory of Charles Cudworth
Herausgeber: Hogwood, Christopher; Luckett, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this book are devoted to the social and intellectual background of eighteenth-century music.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9780521090087
• ISBN-10: 0521090083
• Artikelnr.: 25498683

Inhaltsangabe

1. The beginnings of provincial concert life in England Michael Tilmouth;
2. Thomas Tudway's History of Music Christopher Hogwood; 3. Purcellian
passages in the compositions of G. F. Handel Franklin B. Zimmerman; 4. 'Or
rather our musical Shakspeare': Charles Burney's Purcell Richard Luckett;
5. Walsh's editions of Handel's Opera 1-5: the texts and their sources
Donald Burrows; 6. The recovery of Handel's operas Winton Dean; 7.
Intellectual contexts of Handel's English oratorios Ruth Smith; 8. Handel's
successor: notes on John Christopher Smith the younger Alfred Mann; 9. The
late additions to Handel's oratorios and the role of the younger Smith
Anthony Hicks; 10. Handel's harpsichord music: a checklist Terence Best;
11. New light on the libretto of The Creation Nicholas Temperley; 12. The
English symphony: some additions and annotations to Charles Cudworth's
published studies Jan LaRue; 13. Thematic index of English symphonies
Charles Cudworth and Jan LaRue; 14. A bibliography of the writings of
Charles Cudworth Richard Andrewes.