The Music for the Royal Fireworks

for Orchestra

by George Frideric Handel

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Published August 1, 1981 by Eulenburg London (Schott) .
Written in English

Subjects:

• Genres & Styles - Classical,
• Songbooks - General,
• Music / Classical,
• Music,
• Music/Songbooks

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The Physical Object
Format	Paperback
Number of Pages	58
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL9428988M
ISBN 10	3795766451
ISBN 10	9783795766450

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Royal Fireworks Music. Series: Artist Level (correlates with Book 1, p. 34) From this Baroque masterpiece by Handel, Mike has selected two of the most familiar themes for this arrangement. The bold and majestic strains of the Overture are followed by the faster and energetic Minuet. The brass and woodwinds are often featuring in answering. Handel premiered Music for the Royal Fireworks in One of his last hurrahs, it caused a certified riot in the streets of London. At that time, only the truly wealthy people ever heard live music. Regular, non-fancy people simply did not have access to instruments or events where instruments were played.

Get this from a library! Handel: Water music and Music for the royal fireworks. [Christopher Hogwood] -- Christopher Hogwood here provides a study of Handel's best-known public music: the Water Music, written at the outset of his English career, and the Music for the Royal Fireworks, the last and. Click on the button to go to the page where you can download the music. At the end of each line you find more information about the music of that specific performer: the duration and the filetype. For example "6'02 m" means that this performer offers a mp3 file of . This Handbook covers Handel's best known public music, the Water Music, written at the outset of his English career, and the Music for the Royal Fireworks, the last and largest of his orchestral creations. The genesis of these two orchestral suites is examined in its political as well as musical context; practical questions of performance style and interpretation are balanced by an enquiry.

The celebrated Water Music and Royal Fireworks Music both arose from the sumptuous outdoor festivities of England’s Georgian courts. According to The Daily Courant of J , King George I boarded an open barge about eight o’clock for an evening cruise with his noble entourage up the Thames from Whitehall to Chelsea. Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks (HWV ) Celebrated trumpeter Alison Balsom brings her own virtuoso ensemble of six natural trumpets, strings, organ, theorbo and timpani to perform a dazzling programme of great baroque masterpieces and beloved : Christ Church Cathedral. This Handbook covers Handel's best known public music, the Water Music, and the Music for the Royal Fireworks. Christopher Hogwood sets the music in its political .