Handel's Dramatic Oratorios and Masques

By Winton Dean

Book Overview

Illustrating Handel's oratorios and masques in dramatic form--among them some of the highest achievements of musical drama ever written--Dean here begins by discussing general questions of history, style, and performace, and explains how the oratorios have been progressively misrepresented since Handel's day; subsequent chapters detail each of his 18 works in this genre.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0193152037
• ISBN13: 9780193152038
• Release Date: December 1959
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 710 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.