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A performer's analysis of the bass roles in selected Old Testament narrative English oratorios of George Frideric Handel
… are in the Old Testament English oratorios of George Frideric Handel. This study is largely dependent upon the Chrysander editions of the oratorios, however both the Bärenreiter and Novello editions are consulted where available. This work may serve as a reference for bass soloists, or vocal …
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Master's thesis recital (violin)
… for violin and basso continuo no. 4 in D major / George Frideric Handel -- Polonaise brillante in D major, op. 4 / Henri Wieniawski -- Sonata for violin and piano no. 3 in C minor, op. 45 / Edvard Grieg
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A bibliographical and textual study of the wordbooks for James Miller's Joseph and his brethren and Thomas Broughton's Hercules, oratorio librettos set to music by George Frideric Handel, 1743-44.
This thesis recovers the wordbooks for Handel’s oratorios from their neglect in literary and musical history. Taking Joseph and his Brethren and Hercules as samples, it shows the essential place of wordbooks in the original oratorio experience and challenges an editorial and performance practice …
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The Influence of Foreign-Born Oboists on English Musical Life, 1695-1737: Performers, Composers, and the Development of the Oboe Repertoire
… is then narrowed to three performers for whom George Frideric Handel wrote solo parts in his operas: Johann Ernst Galliard, Jean Christian Kytch, and Giuseppe Sammartini. Through analyses of the parts written for these performers along with comparisons with their own compositions for the oboe, …
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Solo angel roles in vocal music : tracing the use of angel roles from 1600 to the present
… in detail: Heinrich Schütz’s Weihnachtshistorie, George Frideric Handel’s La Resurrezione, Franz Joseph Haydn’s The Creation, Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Sir Edward Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, Arnold Schoenberg’s Die Jakobsleiter, and Olivier Messiaen’s Saint François D’Assise. The chapters …
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A conductor’s guide to the Magnificat in C, TWV 9:17 by Georg Philipp Telemann
… Along with Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) and George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), Telemann was one of the leading German composers and instrumentalists in the first half of the 18th century. He is regarded as a significant link between the late-Baroque and early-Classical styles, representing …
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Aesthetics of the Unseen: The Sacred Music of Grzegorz Gorczycki in Turbulent Times of Eighteenth-Century Kraków, Poland.
… A near-contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, Gorczycki lived in turbulent times of early eighteenth-century Poland and, as a church musician, composed solely sacred music. Taking as examples his selected vocal-instrumental compositions written for a liturgical purpose, …
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The Comedies of Opera Seria: Handel’s Post-academy Operas, 1738-1744
This dissertation explores the ways in which Handel’s late operas intersect with other forms of theater in mid-eighteenth-century London. It seeks to explain how certain comic features of these late works—from the lighter subject matter of the libretti to Handel’s unconventional musical …
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The Comedies of Opera Seria: Handel's Post-Academy Operas, 1738-1744
This dissertation explores the ways in which Handel's late operas intersect with other forms of theater in mid-eighteenth-century London. It seeks to explain how certain comic features of these late works--from the lighter subject matter of the libretti to Handel's unconventional musical …
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Curating the composer : preserving and interpreting our musical heritage through composer house museums.
Although historic house museums, especially those in which political or community leaders once lived, are quite common and have been analyzed by museum scholars, the sub-genre of historic houses in which European classical composers lived has not been explored in as great a depth. The purpose of …
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A Study of the Effects of the Italian Influence on the Vocal Literature of Handel for the Purpose of Proper Interpretation
It is the purpose of this study (1) to investigate the influential philosophies and musical forms of the Baroque, (2) to survey the shaping factors of Handel's life and career, (3) to determine the major characteristics of the dominating Italian principles, and (4) to cite compositional examples of …
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Warren Seago's Graduate Recital
Composers in the first graduate recital: Paul Hindemith; G. F. Handel; J. B. G. Neruda; Fisher Tull
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The Theme and Variations as Used by Four Important Piano Composers in Four Periods of Music History
The intent of this study was to give a brief background and history of the theme and variations in early periods of music history, as well as to analyze more specifically and compare in some depth the use of the form by four composers of later periods, in a keyboard work of each. Each of the …