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The Cambridge Companion to

HANDEL

Edited by DONALD BURROWS

Professor of Music, The Open University, Milton Keynes

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The Cambridge Companion to Handel / edited by Donald Burrows.

p. cm. (Cambridge companions to music)

Includes bibliographical references, work list, and index.

Contents: Background The music The music in performance.

ISBN 0 521 45425 5 (hardback) ISBN 0 521 45613 4 (paperback)

1. Handel, George Frideric, 16851759 Criticism and interpretation. I. Burrows, Donald. II. Series.

ML410.H13C2 1997

780.92dc21 9650935 CIP

ISBN-13 978-0-521-45425-4 hardback

ISBN-10 0-521-45425-5 hardback

ISBN-13 978-0-521-45613-5 paperback

ISBN-10 0-521-45613-4 paperback

Transferred to digital printing 2006

Contents

Donald Burrows

John Butt

Carlo Vitali

William Weber

Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume

H. Diack Johnstone

Lowell Lindgren

Ruth Smith

C. Steven LaRue

David Ross Hurley

Anthony Hicks

Graydon Beeks

Malcolm Boyd

Donald Burrows

Terence Best

Terence Best

Mark W. Stahura

Winton Dean

Donald Burrows

Plates

Contributors

Graydon Beeks is Director of Music Programming and Facilities, and Associate Professor of Music, at Pomona College, Claremont, California, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Hallische Hndel-Ausgabe. Since 1991 he has served successively as President and Vice-President of The American Handel Society.

Terence Best is a member of the Editorial Board of the Hallische Hndel-Ausgabe, and a founding Council Member of the Handel Institute. His editions of Handels music for HHA include five volumes of instrumental music and the opera Tamerlano .

Malcolm Boyds writings include books on Palestrina, Bach, Domenico Scarlatti and the Welsh composers Grace Williams and William Mathias. He was, on his retirement in 1992, Reader in Music at the University of Wales, Cardiff.

Donald Burrows is Professor of Music at the Open University, Milton Keynes, a founding Council Member of the Handel Institute, a member of the Editorial Board of the Hallische Hndel-Ausgabe and General Editor of the Novello Handel Edition. His publications include the Master Musicians biography of Handel and music editions of several major works by Handel, including Messiah , Belshazzar , Alexanders Feast and the complete Violin Sonatas.

John Butt is Lecturer in Music at Cambridge University and Director of Studies in Music at Kings College; from 1989 to 1997 he was University Organist and Professor in Music at the University of California, Berkeley. The author of several books on Bach and the German Baroque, he is also active as a performer on the organ and harpsichord.

Winton Dean is the author of major reference works concerning Handels principal compositional genres, Handels Dramatic Oratorios and Masques and (with John Merrill Knapp) Handels Operas , 170426. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Vassar College.

Anthony Hicks is a freelance writer on music, and in particular that of Handel. His publications include the work-list for the Handel article in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians .

Robert Hume is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. His publications as author, co-author and editor include Henry Fielding and the London Theatre , A Register of English Theatrical Documents, 16601737 , and Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London.

David Ross Hurley is Assistant Professor of Music at Pittsburg State University, Kansas. He is the author of Handels Compositional Choices: the Genesis of the Oratorios, 17341748 .

H. Diack Johnstone is Tutorial Fellow in Music at St Annes College, Oxford and Lecturer at St Johns College. A member of the Editorial Committee of Musica Britannica , he has edited two large-scale works by Maurice Greene for that series, and also (with Roger Fiske) the eighteenth-century volume in the Blackwell History of Music in Britain .

C. Steven LaRue edited the International Dictionary of Opera (1993), and is author of Handel and His Singers (1995).

Lowell Lindgren , Professor of Music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of Musicians and Librettists in the Correspondence of Gio . Giacomo Zamboni (1991), and editor of Antonio Bononcini, Fifteen Sonatas for Violoncello and Continuo .

Judith Milhous is Distinguished Professor of Theatre History in the Ph.D. Program in Theatre, City University of New York, Graduate Center. Her publications as author, co-author and editor include Thomas Betterton and the Management of Lincolns Inn Fields, Vice Chamberlain Cokes Theatrical Papers, 17061715 , and Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London.

Ruth Smith is the author of articles on the intellectual contexts to Handels English oratorios and the achievements of Charles Jennens, and the book Handels Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought (1995).

Mark Stahura completed his doctoral studies on the subject of Handels orchestrational techniques at the University of Chicago.

Carlo Vitali is a librarian in Bologna and a freelance author and translator for several publishing houses and broadcasting stations in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain and the United States.

William Weber , a historian at California State University, Long Beach, has written Music and the Middle Class (1976) and The Rise of Musical Classics in Eighteenth-Century England (1992), and co-edited Wagnerism in European Culture and Politics (1984).

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