Handel: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521544863)

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 the 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 of these pieces to his other large-scale orchestral compositions.

Author: Christopher Hogwood
ISBN-10: 0521544866
ISBN-13: 9780521544863
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2005
Pages: 166
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.42h x 6.56w x 0.38d