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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Joseph and his Brethren"”.
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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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A performer's analysis of the bass roles in selected Old Testament narrative English oratorios of George Frideric Handel
This document facilitates the study of the bass roles, including the bass arias and recitatives that 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 …
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Charles Jennens's collection of Handel's sacred oratorios from 'Saul' to 'Jephtha': sources, contexts, and revisions
… of 'L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato', and probably 'Israel in Egypt', amassed a huge library of music that forms the bulk of what is now known as the Aylesford collection. Jennens’s collection of Handel’s music was unique among those of his contemporaries, not only because it includes …