Handel and the English Chapel Royal /
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| Author / Creator: | Burrows, Donald, 1945- |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 651 pages) : illustrations. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | [Oxford studies in British church music] Oxford studies in British church music. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11143243 |
| Summary: | Handel's English church music spans the complete period of his active career in London: his first anthem and the Utrecht Te Deum were composed soon after his arrival in London, and his last works nearly 40 years later. The repertory, which includes the Coronation Anthem Zadok the Priest, forms one of the most impressive and engaging areas of Baroque church music. Most of it was stimulated by Handel's creative contact with the English Chapel Royal, a group of; professional singers in a different tradition from the opera stars with whom he worked in the theatre.; This is the first full-length study of Handel's English Church music. As well as dealing with the many aspects of the compositions themselves, it traces the background to the diverse items in the repertory, which relates directly to Handel's constant but changing relationship with the Hanoverian British royal family, and was affected by political and dynastic events. It also examines the circumstances of Handel's performances, the building which (unlike his theatres) still survives in London; today. |
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| Item Description: | Series statement on jacket. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 651 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 617-634) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 142376532X 9781423765325 9780198162285 0198162286 1280755903 9781280755903 9786610755905 6610755906 |