Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521402651)

In this wide-ranging and challenging book, Ruth Smith shows that the words of Handel's oratorios reflect the events and ideas of their time and have far greater meaning than has hitherto been realized. She sheds new light on the oratorio librettists and explores literature, music, aesthetics, politics and religion to reveal Handel's texts as conduits for eighteenth-century thought and sensibility. This book enriches our understanding of Handel, his times, and the relationships between music and its intellectual contexts.

Author: Ruth Smith, Smith Ruth
ISBN-10: 0521402654
ISBN-13: 9780521402651
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/26/1995
Pages: 500
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.79lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.22w x 1.27d