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Handel, Messiah

Donald Burrows 1991 © Cambridge University Press
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Series
  • Cambridge Music Handbooks
ISBN(s)
  • 9780521376204 (paper)
  • 9781139085557 (ebook)
  • 9780521374798 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Music & Musicology
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page vii)
  • References to 'Messiah' editions (page ix)
  • 1 The historical background (page 1)
  • 2 From composition to first performance (page 8)
  • 3 The first London performances (page 23)
  • 4 Revival and revision, 1743-1759 (page 32)
  • 5 Messiah in other hands (page 47)
  • 6 Design (page 55)
  • 7 Individual movements (page 68)
  • 8 Handel's word-setting (page 75)
  • Appendix 1: The libretto of Messiah (page 83)
  • Appendix 2: Messiah sources (page 103)
  • Notes (page 109)
  • Bibliography (page 121)
  • Index (page 123)
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MT 133.1792 (Jun. 1992): 298-300 http://www.jstor.org/stable/966076
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