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Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought

Name: Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought
Author: Ruth Smith
ISBN: 9780521023702

by Ruth Smith

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Overview

In this wide-r anging and challenging book, Ruth Smith claims that the words to Handel>'s oratorios reflect the events and ideas of their time and have far greater meaning than has hitherto been realised. She explores eighteenth-century literature, music, aesthetics, politics and religion to reveal Handel>'s texts as conduits for the thought and sensibility of their time. The book thus enriches our understanding of Handel, his times, and the close relationship between music and its intellectual contexts.

Synopsis

Ruth Smith sheds new light on Handel's oratorio librettists and explores literature, music, aesthetics, politics and religion to reveal his texts as conduits for eighteenth-century thought.