Ask Bookie
{
"item_title" : "Handel",
"item_author" : [" Christopher Hogwood "],
"item_description" : "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.",
"item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/52/183/636/0521836360_b.jpg",
"price_data" : {
"retail_price" : "106.00", "online_price" : "106.00", "our_price" : "106.00", "club_price" : "106.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : ""
}
}
Handel : Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks
Other Available Formats
Overview
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.
This item is Non-Returnable
Customers Also Bought
- 1
Details
- ISBN-13: 9780521836364
- ISBN-10: 0521836360
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: November 2005
- Dimensions: 8.78 x 6.96 x 0.56 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.69 pounds
- Page Count: 168
Related Categories
