Handel: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks

by Christopher Hogwood

Book Overview

This handbook covers Handel's best known public music, the Water Music, written at the outset of his English career, and the Music for the Royal Fireworks, the last and largest of his orchestral creations. The genesis of these two orchestral suites is examined in its political as well as musical context; practical questions of performance style and interpretation are balanced by an enquiry into Handel's compositional processes, and the relationship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521544866
• ISBN13: 9780521544863
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 8.4"