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Handel : Water music and Music for the royal fireworks / Christopher Hogwood.
- Title
- Handel : Water music and Music for the royal fireworks / Christopher Hogwood.
- Author
- Hogwood, Christopher
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | MT92.H15 H64 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 155 p. : ill., maps, plans, music; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Christopher Hogwood here provides a study of Handel's best-known public music: the Water Music, written at the outset of his English career, and the Music for the Royal Fireworks, the last and largest of his orchestral creations.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge music handbooks
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge music handbooks
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-146) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The character of the man -- Politics and power -- Water music -- The 'indebtedness' of Handel -- The concerti a due cori -- Politics and peace -- Music for the royal fireworks -- Handel in other hands -- performance parameters.
- ISBN
- 0521836360 (hbk.)
- 0521544866 (pbk.)
- 9780521836364 (hbk.)
- 9780521544863 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 60611021
- SCSB-10436638
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library