Handel's Messiah: A New View of Its Musical and Spiritual Architecture--Study Guide for Listeners and Performers (Cascade Companions) - Hardcover

Athnos, Gregory S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1666739057 ISBN 13: 9781666739053

Verlag: Cascade Books, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

We think we know Handel's Messiah, having heard it or performed it so many times. But is there another way to look at this masterpiece? Who assembled the texts? Why? How did Handel incorporate his own spiritual understanding of the texts? In this treatise, we view the composition from the same Baroque aesthetic perspective the composer used: the Doctrine of Affections--an approach heretofore unexplored in relationship to Handel's Messiah--which held that every major and minor key prompted a particular, very specific, and involuntary emotional and spiritual response in the listener. When facing a choice between following the accepted rules of musical composition or using the Affect best suited to the scriptural text, Handel almost exclusively chose the Affect; in other words, he chose spiritual insight over compositional tradition. Overlaying the various Affects on each movement of Handel's composition, we discover the true heart and spiritual depth of the composer's magnum opus.

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Gregory S. Athnos is emeritus professor of music from North Park University in Chicago. He is the author of four books: The Art of the Roman Catacombs (2011), Eat in Harmony: A Feast of Life, the Arts, and Faith (2016), Handel's ""Messiah"": A New View of Its Musical and Spiritual Architecture (2023), and Silent Voices: Meditations for Holy Week (2023).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cascade Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1666739057
• ISBN 13: 9781666739053
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 156
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