Handel Studies: A Gedenkschrift for Howard Serwer - King, Richard Glenn 1954- (Hillsdale, NY Pendragon, 2009)
From Walsh to the Hallische Handel-Ausgabe : Handel editions past and present / Terence Best -- Handel's years as an apprentice to Reinhard Keiser at the Gansemarkt Opera House in Hamburg (1703-1705) / Hans Joachim Marx -- Jupier in Argos / Winton Dean -- Why does Jephtha misinterpret his own vow? / Ruth Smith -- For better or worse? : Handel's revisions in Theodora / David Ross Hurley -- Who does what, when? : on the instrumentation of the basso continuo and the use of the organ in Handel's English oratorios / Donald Burrows -- Royal patronage of Handel in Britain : the rewards of pensions and office / David Hunter -- Pyramids in Germany : on the German reception of Handel's oratorios in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Annette Landgraf -- Reinventing Handel : Hermann Stephani's Jephtha arrangement / Our Handel image / Alfred Mann -- Handel, Jennens, and Messiah / Howard Serwer -- Messiah performance traditions / Jens Peter Larsen -- Esther and the beginning of English oratorio / Howard Serwer -- Theatre in London in Handel's day / Shirley Strum Kenny -- Chandos anthem IX / Graydon Beeks -- Deborah is a failure / Howard Serwer -- Handel commemoration : 1684(?), 1784, 1984 / Howard Serwer -- Handel as a political football in the 1784 commemoration / William Weber -- Notes on the program (Acis and Galatea) / Graydon Beeks -- Handel and the theatre / Winton Dean -- Handel's Saul ; Some sources of Handel's Israel in Egypt (Erba's Magnificat and Stradella's Serenata) / Anthony Hicks -- Israel in Egypt / Donald Burrows -- Notes on the program (Greene's Ode for music and Handel's Song for St. Cecilia's Day) / Anthony Hicks -- Handel's Samson / Donald Burrows -- Congreve's Semele and opera in London / Calhoun Winton -- Handel's Semele / Anthony Hicks -- Handel, the Foundling Hospital, and Messiah / Donald Burrows -- Handel's Agrippina / J. Merrill Knapp -- Joseph and his brethren / Donald Burrows -- Notes on the program (Hercules auf dem Scheideweg : The choice of Hercules) ; Handel's Hercules / Anthony Hicks -- Handel's Belshazzar / Donald Burrows -- Judas Maccabeus ; Alexander Balus / Anthony Hicks -- Joshua ; Handel in 1749 / Donald Burrows -- Susanna / Anthony Hicks -- Solomon ; Theodora / Donald Burrows -- Jephtha / Anthony Hicks.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Writings by Howard Serwer": p. 353-357.
Keywords: Handel, George Frideric -- 1685-1759