Handel: Tercentenary Collection

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Scholarship and the Handel Revival, 1935–85....Pages 1-18
Sources, Resources and Handel Studies....Pages 19-42
Handel and his Central German Background....Pages 43-60
The Case for Handel’s Borrowings: The Judgment of Three Centuries....Pages 61-82
Why did Handel Borrow?....Pages 83-92
The Staging of Handel’s Operas in London....Pages 93-119
English Traditions in Handel’s Rinaldo....Pages 120-137
The Royal Academy of Music (1719–28) and its Directors....Pages 138-164
Handel’s Disengagement from the Italian Opera....Pages 165-181
New Sources for the Libretto of Handel’s Joseph....Pages 182-208
‘A Club of Composers’: Handel, Pepusch and Arbuthnot at Cannons....Pages 209-221
Steffani’s Influence on Handel’s Chamber Duets....Pages 222-245
Handel’s Italian Cantatas: Some New Sources....Pages 246-253
The Origins of Handel’s Opus 3: A Historical Review....Pages 254-270
Handel and the Organ Concerto: What We Know 250 Years Later....Pages 271-278
Interpreting Handel’s Rhythmic Notation — Some Reflections on Modern Practice....Pages 279-290
Back Matter....Pages 291-308