Handel's Messiah
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Handel's Messiah

A New View of Its Musical and Spiritual Architecture—Study Guide for Listeners and Performers

  1. 156 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Handel's Messiah

A New View of Its Musical and Spiritual Architecture—Study Guide for Listeners and Performers

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Introduction
  3. Chapter 1: The Baroque Doctrine of the Affections
  4. Chapter 2: Charles Jennens, Deism, and the Enlightenment
  5. Chapter 3: George Frideric Handel
  6. Chapter 4: Charles Jennens’ Scripture Collection
  7. Chapter 5: Oratorio Musical Components
  8. Chapter 6: Compositional Devices
  9. Chapter 7: Scene 1: The World after the Fall
  10. Chapter 8: Scene 2: The Promise
  11. Chapter 9: Scene 3: Shaking up the World
  12. Chapter 10: Scene 4: First Words of a Virgin Birth
  13. Chapter 11: Scene 5: Into the Shepherds’ Field
  14. Chapter 12: Scene 6: Four Images of a Savior
  15. Chapter 13: Scene 7: Redemption through Personal Suffering
  16. Chapter 14: Scene 8: Prophecies of Death and Resurrection
  17. Chapter 15: Scene 9: From Resurrection to Ascension
  18. Chapter 16: Scene 10: The Gospel Is Preached
  19. Chapter 17: Scene 11: The Resurrected Messiah Defeats the Enemies of God
  20. Chapter 18: Scene 12: In Response, the Believers Sing
  21. Chapter 19: Scene 13: Homage to the Triumphant Savior
  22. Chapter 20: Scene 14:Resurrection Hope
  23. Chapter 21: Scene 15: The Conclusion of the Apostle Paul’s Words to Corinth
  24. Chapter 22: Scene 16: Around the Throne of the Lamb
  25. Conclusions