Handel's Grand Concertos Op. 6

Shifts in Compositional Perspectives
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-98348-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 770 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Music

This book offers a deep analysis of Handel’s Twelve Grand Concertos, Op. 6, a part of Handel’s repertoire which has remained relatively understudied. Bringing together an analytical approach to the concertos with their historical context, the author shows how studying these concertos offers new insights into Handel’s innovative and deeply individual compositional techniques, reframing our modern understanding of Handel as a composer. Refocusing scholarly attention on the crucial role of the orchestra, this book demonstrates how Handel utilised a unique compositional strategy that involved juxtaposing and fusing elements of different concerto types, including the grosso, ripieno, solo, and hybrid concerto. Revealing the remarkable consistency and creative deployment of the multilayered interconnections between concerto types in these works, this study shows that they represent a novel development in the history of the concerto genre. Shedding new light on Handel’s Grand Concertos, on Handel as a composer, and the history of the concerto, this book is relevant to Handel scholars, musicologists, music theorists, and all those with a serious interest in Handel and eighteenth-century music.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rakochi, Vadym

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Sinfonische Musik & Ensembles

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: The concerto and the orchestra

1. Three constitutive attributes of the instrumental concerto: Non-concerto cases

2. The birth of the orchestra

3. Orchestra vs ensemble: Similarity vs difference

Part 2: Types and models of the instrumental concertos

4. Problems of the instrumental concerto classifications: Concerto grosso

5. Concerto ripieno and solo concerto

6. Concerto models: Handel’s reconsideration of the Corellian concerto model

Part 3: Analysis of the Twelve Grand Concertos Op. 6

7. Introduction

8. First Concerto

9. Second Concerto

10. Third Concerto

11. Fourth Concerto

12. Fifth Concerto

13. Sixth Concerto

14. Seventh Concerto

15. Eighth Concerto

16. Ninth Concerto

17. Tenth Concerto

18. Eleventh Concerto

19. Twelfth Concerto

Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Vadym Rakochi, Lecturer in the Department of Music and Scientific Collaborator at the Institute for Music Research at Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland (2022–2025), is currently a Docent at Basel University, Switzerland.