Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought

by Ruth Smith and Smith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052102370X
• ISBN13: 9780521023702
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"