The publication of the new Urtext edition of Water Music makes the work available in a revised edition reflecting the latest research findings. In October 2004 the editor Terence Best found the oldest surviving manuscript score in the archives of the Royal Society of Musicians in London primary source A which can be dated to 1718. This discovery demands a dramatic reappraisal of what is probably Handel s most famous work.Until this find the theory formulated by Barrett Lennard in 1950 was regarded as authoritative. He divided the material into three suites according to key and instrumentation. This was based on the fact that some ofthe material in the Water Music is the same as in the Concerto HWV 331. With the help of the latest technology it has now been possible to date this Concerto to 1722. By doing this the rationale for dividing the music into three suites has been removed. The newly found primary source A places the movements in a richly varied sequence of keys and instrumentations which offers a great range of colours than the previous arrangement.Based on new sources editor Terence Best has been able to reconstruct the original order of the suites and correct many points left open or unclarified in earlier publications.- New critical edition based on new sources.- Detailed Prefaces (Ger/Eng).- Urtext of the Halle Handel Edition
SKU: BT.ALHE31437
French.
Georg Friedrich Handel: Water Music (PH37) (Orchestra).
SKU: HL.48187643
UPC: 888680845230. 5.5x7.5x0.22 inches.
SKU: HL.49020888
ISBN 9783254002495. German. Katharina Knebel.
Till Sailer tells twelve vivid stories of the childhood and youth of the composer Georg Friedrich Handel in Halle, his trials at the Hamburg Opera, his first successes in Italy and his 'second life' in England. In London where Handel had the most prolific time of his life he wrote such masterpieces as 'Water Music' and the oratorio 'Messiah' with the famous Hallelujah chorus. Accurate in historical details, sensitive and always with a touch of humour, this book lets the reader gain an insight into the peculiarities of Handel's personality and the characteristic features of his epoch.
SKU: BA.BA10252
ISBN 9790006538775. 31 x 24.3 cm inches. Key: F major. Preface: Terence Best.
Handel’s Concerto in F major (HWV 331) was long considered a variant of two movements from the three suites of his “Water Music” (HWV 348-350). Recently our understanding of the “Water Music” had to be thoroughly revised owing to new scholarly discoveries. Not only did the structure of the three suites prove to be unhistorical, but Friedrich Chrysander’s 19th-century view turned out to be correct: the two “variants” actually constitute an independent concerto.In musical terms, HWV 331 is related to two movements of the “Water Music” and is frequently performed alongside them. Now it is available for the first time in a performing edition based on the already revised volume of the “Halle Handel Edition”, which reflects the current state of scholarship concerning the complex source tradition of the “Water Music” and the Concerto HWV 331.
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MUSICOLOGICA LLY SOUND - A reliable musical text based on all available sources - A description of the sources - Information on the genesis and history of the work - Valuable notes on performance practice - Includes an introduction with critical commentary explaining source discrepancies and editorial decisions ... AND PRACTICAL - Page-turns, fold-out pages, and cues where you need them - A well-presented layout and a user-friendly format - Excellent print quality - Superior paper and binding