Reading Handel: A Textual and Musical Analysis of Handel's Acis and Galatea (1708, 1718)
Description:
The purpose of this dissertation is two-fold: one is to analyze the narratives of Acis and Galatea written by Ovid, and the two libretti by Handel's librettists including Nicola Giuvo (1708) and John Gay (1718) with John Hughes and Alexander Pope; the other is to correlate this textual analysis within the musical languages. A 1732 pastiche version is excluded because its bilingual texts are not suitable for the study of relationships between meaning and words. For this purpose, the study uses …
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Date:
August 2005
Creator:
Chang, Young-Shim