Handel's Dramatic Oratorios and Masques

by Winton Dean

Book Overview

Looking in depth at Handel's oratorios and masques in dramatic form--among them some of the highest achievements of musical drama ever written--Dean here discusses general questions of history, style, and performance, and explains how the oratorios have been progressively misrepresented since Handel's day; subsequent chapters detail each of his eighteen works in this genre.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198161840
• ISBN13: 9780198161844
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.