Author:
Shaw, Watkins, 1911-1996.
Edition Statement:4th printing (paperback edition)
ImprintLondon : Novello Publishing Limited, 1993, c1965.
Description217, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, plates, music,facsimiles ; 22 cm. + [1] pages (21 x 35 cm.) + [1] pages (21 x 29 cm.)
Note:"Musical appendix": 16 p. at end.
Note:4th printing (paperback edition)
Note:Accompanying material includes 2 folded pages; one is called Schedule A and the other Schedule B.
Note:Preface -- Preliminary note: Messiah or The Messiah? -- Handy references -- The principal sources: R.M.20.f.2 and Tenbury MSS 346-7 -- Handel's London Messiah singers -- A conspectus of secondary MS sources (Schedule A) -- The Foundling Hospital material -- Performances and versions, 1742-59 -- The early printed copies (Schedule B) -- Textual authority -- Commentary and readings -- Editorial practice -- Bibliography -- Index -- Musical appendix.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-212) and index.
Note:"This book provides an ample background of textual and historical information to Handel's Messiah. Though it arises from the author's work involved in his own edition in vocal and full score (Novello), its relevance is by no means confined to that edition. A survey of Handel's singers and of manuscript sources of the work provides the basis for an investigation into the alternations and development to which the work was subject after its original conception. The alternative versions of numerous movements are also reviewed and thus a certain amount of light is shed on the form assumed by the earliest printed copies. After an important discussion of textual authority and a commentary on the readings of individual movements, the author concludes with a statement of editorial aims and practices."--Back cover.
