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Disseminating and domesticating Handel in mid-eighteenth-century Britain
- Abstract:
- George Frideric Handel has always epitomized musical grandeur and represented music’s role in, and service to, the state. A volume such as this, however, affords an opportunity to nuance that view: not only Handel’s high status but also the increasing technical and social accessibility of his music in the 1730s and 1740s facilitated performance of the composer’s works and appropriation of Handel himself as cultural symbol in a range of contexts removed from the traditional civic entertainments of the capital.¹ A burgeoning market for music in all forms allowed works written for Handel’s aristocratic patrons to percolate into both more]]...
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Indiana University Press
- Host title:
- Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England
- Pages:
- 207-222
- Chapter number:
- 13
- Series:
- Music and the Early Modern Imagination
- Publication date:
- 2017-01-30
- EISBN:
- 9780253024978
- ISBN:
- 9780253024794
- Language:
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English
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- Deposit date:
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2016-01-15
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- Indiana University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- © 2017 by Indiana University Press
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