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Books : Entertainment : Sheet Music & Scores : Composers : Handel
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A sacred oratorio arranged for SATB with piano part. Edited, with piano reduction, by Watkins Shaw. Paper Edition
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The wordbook for Handel's famous oratorio accompanies two cassettes featuring London's Academy of Ancient Music (Christopher Hogwood conducting), the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and outstanding soloists, in a complete performance of Messiah .
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George Frideric Handel was born and educated in Germany, flourished in Italy, and chose to become British. One of the most cosmopolitan of the great composers, much of Handel's music has remained in the popular repertory since his lifetime, and a broad variety of his music theatre works from Italian operas to English oratorios have experienced a dramatic renaissance since the late twentieth century. A large number of publications devoted to Handel's life and music have appeared from his own time to the present day, but The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia is the first resource to gather the full range of present knowledge and leading new scholarship into a single volume for convenient and illuminating reference. Packed with 700 informative and accessible entries both long and short, this book is ideal for performers, scholars, students and music lovers who wish to explore the Handelian world.
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This book is an edition, with commentary, of Handel's exercises for continuo playing, which he wrote for the daughters of George II. The exercises, which until now have not been readily available, are supplemented by clear and concise commentary. Remaining faithful to his source, Ledbetter, who lectures in keyboard studies, has prepared an edition that will prove invaluable to students and performers of the music of Handel and his contemporaries.
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The concept of genius intrigues us. Artistic geniuses have something other people don't have. In some cases that something seems to be a remarkable kind of inspiration that permits the artist to exceed his own abilities. It is as if the artist is suddenly possessed, as if some outside force flows through him at the moment of creation. In other cases genius seems best explained as a natural gift. The artist is the possessor of an extra talent that enables the production of masterpiece after masterpiece. This book explores the concept of artistic genius and how it came to be symbolized by three great composers of the modern era: Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven. Peter Kivy, a leading thinker in musical aesthetics, delineates the two concepts of genius that were already well formed in the ancient world. Kivy then develops the argument that these concepts have alternately held sway in Western thought since the beginning of the eighteenth century. He explores why this pendulum swing from the concept of the possessor to the concept of the possessed has occurred and how the concepts were given philosophical reformulations as views toward Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven as geniuses changed in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
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Most classical guitar folios feature compositions by the lesser-known "guitar" composers. This collection, however, exclusively features music by the world's most renowned composers. The works of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederick Handel represent the culmination of the Baroque era. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stands at the summit of the Classical era. Ludwig van Beethoven straddles the Classical and Romantic eras, and Johannes Brahms is the giant of the Romantic era. For educational purposes, the pieces have been organized in order of difficulty within each composer's section. In addition, complete performances of all pieces can be heard on the accompanying CD. Enjoy! Includes: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring * The Harmonious Blacksmith * Ode to Joy * Lullaby * and more.
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Available for the first time in one inexpensive, reliable volume, here are the full scores of two of the most popular Baroque orchestral works performed today, reprinted from the definitive edition preserving Handel’s final arrangements for students, musicians and musicologists.
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This exciting volume features 35 neglected works from Handel's vast oeuvre, originally jotted down as improvisations. Includes 8 Great Suites, and others. New sequence.
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This first of the classic two-volume survey of Handel's operas was first published in 1987 and reissued in a revised paperback edition in 1995. Now it is brought back into print in a year which has seen numerous productions and recordings of the operas and which marks the 250th anniversary of Handel's death. Their revival in the modern theatre - not a single opera was staged or performed anywhere between 1754 and 1920 - has been among the most remarkable phenomena in the history of the art, and is due in no small measure to the painstaking research of Dean and Knapp in volume one, and Dean himself in volume two, published by Boydell in 2006. This first volume devotes a chapter to each of Handel's first seventeen operas, offering a full synopsis and study of the libretto, extensive discussions of the music, a performance history, and a comparison of the different versions of the opera. In addition there are several general chapters on the historical and stylistic context of Handel's operatic career to 1726, and a number of Appendices including a list of performances during Handel's life and the location of librettos, Handel's borrowings, Handel's singers, and modern stage productions up to the end of 1993. WINTON DEAN is a distinguished Handelian scholar and writer on opera. He is vice-president of the Georg-Friedrich-Handel Gesellschaft in Halle and a founding Council Member of the Handel Institute in London. JOHN MERRILL KNAPP died in 1993. He was Emeritus Professor of Music, Princeton University and the editor of two volumes of the German edition of Handel's complete works, and author of The Joy of Opera.
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for organ or harpsichord
First published by Walsh in 1735, these pieces are amongst the first keyboard fugues of the period.
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No Description provided.
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The ten arrangements in this collection are designed to allow average to advanced players the opportunity to perform in church and school, or anywhere Easter is being celebrated. Each solo book includes an accompaniment CD which contains a sample performance of each solo, as well as the accompaniment only. The accompaniment track can also be used for performances if desired. A separate piano accompaniment book is available. Includes: Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates, How Beautiful Are the Feet, Their Sound Is Gone Out, Since by Man Came Death, I Know That My Redeemer Liveth, The Trumpet Shall Sound, O Death, Where Is Thy Sting? But Thanks Be to God, If God Be for Us, Worthy Is the Lamb that Was Slain and Hallelujah Chorus.
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A collection of piano solos by George Frideric Handel (9-16).
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The sheet music for Handel’s famous Water Music For Organ.
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The ten arrangements in this collection are designed to allow average to advanced players the opportunity to perform in church and school, or anywhere Easter is being celebrated. Each solo book includes an accompaniment CD which contains a sample performance of each solo, as well as the accompaniment only. The accompaniment track can also be used for performances if desired. A separate piano accompaniment book is available. Includes: Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates, How Beautiful Are the Feet, Their Sound Is Gone Out, Since by Man Came Death, I Know That My Redeemer Liveth, The Trumpet Shall Sound, O Death, Where Is Thy Sting? But Thanks Be to God, If God Be for Us, Worthy Is the Lamb that Was Slain and Hallelujah Chorus.
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Selected from Handel's attractive teaching pieces, this volume contains a wide variety of dances, several sonatinas, a suite for a musical clock and several titled pieces. Lucktenberg's edition includes suggestions for tempi, fingering, dynamics and phrasing. Ornaments are realized and a brief biography of the composer is provided. The collection is an excellent choice for exposing early-intermediate students to this often overlooked Baroque keyboard composer.
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Luckett explores the background and composition of Messiah--the often stormy relations between Handel and his librettist, the colorful lives and personalities of the original soloists, and the circumstances of the first performance in Dublin, 1742. Paintings, engravings, caricatures, and fascimiles.
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Excellent compilation of 40 pieces for high voice and piano, selected from 25 of Handel's great masterworks. Includes "Ev'ry valley shall be exalted" and "I Know that My Redeemer Liveth" (Messiah); "From mighty Kings" (Judas); "Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods" (Jephtha); "O come let us worship" (Chandos Anthems); "O sleep, why dost thou leave me?" (Semele); and many others. An introduction offers detailed commentary about each work.