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Handel'S Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought (Book, 1st pbk. version)
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Handel'S Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought (Book, 1st pbk. version)
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In this wide-ranging and challenging book, Ruth Smith shows that
the words to Handel's oratorios reflect the events and ideas of
their time and have far greater meaning than has hitherto been
realized. She explores literature, music, aesthetics, politics and
religion to reveal Handel's works as conduits for
eighteenth-century thought and sensibility. She provides a full
picure of Handel's librettists and shows how their oratorio texts
express key moral-political preoccupations and engage with
contemporary ideological debate. British identity, the need for
national unity, the conduct of war, the role of government, the
authority of the Bible, the purpose of literature, the effect of
art - these and many more concerns are addressed in the librettos.
The book thus enriches our understanding of Handel, his times, and
the relationships between music and its intellectual contexts.
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