Les oratorios anglais de Haendel : petite typologie dramatique du hors-champ musical

Being forbidden in 1732 to actually stage his biblical dramas, Handel had to think in terms of musical stategy so as to animate these otherwise oddly still dramatic perfomances. Relying on echoes and quotations, he ‘recycled’ some of his contemporaries’ works, and also some of his own, and thus used...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joël Richard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique 2006-01-01
Series:Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/1631