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Ouverture / David Vickers -- Act I, Handel's music and creative practices: "Almire regiere": some reflections on the first aria in Handel's first opera / David Kimbell. Il pastor fido by Guarini (1585) and Handel (1712): from tragicommedia pastorale to dramma per musica / Suzana Ograjenšek. Late or soon?: cadential timing in the continuo recitatives of Handel and his contemporaries / John H. Roberts. Handel's bilingual versions of Esther and Deborah, 1734-1737 / David Vickers. Handel's compositional process in the creation of the Grand concertos, op. 6 / Silas Wollston. The London revisions of Handel's first Roman oratorio: Il trionfo del Tempo della Verità (1737) and The triumph of Time and Truth (1757) / Matthew Gardner -- Act II, Sources, documents and attributions. Handel's continuo cantatas: problems of authenticity, classification and chronology / Andrew V. Jones. When and why did Handel replace his conducting scores? / Hans Dieter Clausen. Handel, the Duke of Chandos and investing in the Royal African Company / David Hunter. Handel and Comus at Exton / Colin Timms. Wordbooks for Handel's oratorios, especially Joseph and his brethren and Hercules: copyright and production / Leslie M.M. Robarts. New music by Handel for horns? / Anthony Hicks ; rev. Colin Timms -- Act III, Context and reception. Bach and Handel: differences within a common culture of musical invention / John Butt. La rivale regime: Faustina and Cuzzoni in satirical engravings, literature and opera in the 1720s and 1730s / Richard G. King. Charles Jennens revisited / Ruth Smith. "O come, let us sing unto the Lord": performances of the Cannons anthems during Handel's lifetime / Graydon Beeks. Charity performances of Handel's works in eighteenth-century Dublin (1736-1769) / Tríona O'Hanlon. Early keepers of the flame: Vanneschi (and Handel) at the opera / Michael Burden. Revamped Handel: the content and context of his so-called "Miserere" / H. Diack Johnstone. Handel's "celebrated Largo": remarks on the reception history of "Ombra mai fu" / Annette Landgraf. |
