Edelberg Collection: Books Bibliography

Prepared by Megan Chellew

Abraham, Gerald, ed. Handel: A Symposium. 1954. London: Oxford UP, 1969.

Alexandre-Debray, Janine. Haendel. Paris: Ramsay, 1980.

Anthony, James R. French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau. Rev. ed. New York: Norton, 1978.

Apel, Willi and Ralph T. Daniel. The Harvard Brief Dictionary of Music. New York: Washington Square, 1960.

Arnold, Denis and Elsie Arnold. The Oratorio in Venice. Royal Musical Assn. Monographs 2. London: Royal Musical Assn., 1986.

Assoc. Board of the Royal Schools of Music. Rudiments and Theory of Music: Based on the Syllabus of the Theory Examinations of the Royal Schools of Music. England: Assoc. Board, 1958.

Avison, Charles. An Essay on Musical Expression. Monuments of Music and Music Lit. in Facsim. 2. New York: Broude, 1967.

Bach-Händel-Schütz-Ehrung der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. Bericht über die Internationale Wissenschaftliche Konferenz: "Georg Friedrich Händel-Persönlichkeit, Werk, Nachleben". Leipzig: Deutscher Vlg. für Musik, 1987.

Bairstow, Edward C. Handel's Oratorio "The Messiah". Music Pilgrim. Ed. Arthur Somervell. London: Oxford UP, 1928.

Barber, Josephine. German for Musicians. Fwd. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. London: Faber Music, 1985.

Barbour, Harriot Buxton and Warren S. Freeman. A Story of Music. Illus. George McVicker. Rev. ed. Evanston, IL: Summy-Birchard, 1958.

Barne, Kitty. Introducing Handel. Illus. J. J. Crockford. New York: Roy, n.d.

Baselt, Bernd, comp. Verzeichnis der Werke Georg Friedrich Händels. Kleine Ausg. Leipzig: VEB Deutscher Vlg. für Musik, 1986.

Bell, A. Craig. Chronological Catalogue of Handel’s Works. Greenock, Scot.: Grain-Aig, 1969.

---. Handel Before England. Darley, Scot.: Grian-Aig, 1975.

Benson, J. Allanson. Handel's “Messiah”: The Oratorio and Its History: A Handbook of Hints and Aids to Its Public Performance, with Useful Notes on Each Movement, as Well as Numerous References and Much Original Information. London: Reeves, n.d.

Bloch, Francine, comp. Phonographies : Francis Poulenc 1928-1982. Phonographies 2. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département de la phonothèque nationale et de l’audiovisuel, 1984.

Broude Brothers, Ltd. Musicological Publications: A Reference Catalogue. Retail Division, Musicology Dept., 175. New York: Broude, 1989.

Brown, Howard Meyer and Joan Lascelle. Musical Iconography: A Manual for Cataloguing Musical Subjects in Western Art Before 1800. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1972.

Buelow, George J. and Hans Joachim Marx, ed. New Mattheson Studies. New York: Cambridge UP, 1983.

Bukofzer, Manfred F. Music in the Baroque Era: From Monteverdi to Bach. New York: Norton, 1947.

Burk, John N. The Life and Works of Beethoven. Modern Library of the World's Best Books. New York: Random, 1943.

Burney, Charles. An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster-Abbey. 1785. Introd. Peter Kivy. Da Capo P Music Rpt. Ser. New York: Da Capo, 1979.

---. A General History of Music: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Period (1789). 1935. Crit. notes Frank Mercer. New York: Dover, 1957.

---. Music, Men, and Manners in France and Italy, 1770: Being the Journal Written by Charles Burney, Mus.D. During a Tour through Those Countries Undertaken to Collect Material for "A General History of Music". Ed. H. Edmund Poole. London: Eulenberg, 1974.

Caldwell, John. Editing Early Music. 1985. Early Music Ser. 5. Oxford: Clarendon, 1987.

---. English Keyboard Music Before the Nineteenth Century. 1973. New York: Dover, 1985.

Chrysander, Friedrich. G. F. Händel. 2nd ed. 3 vols. Leipzig: Breitkopf, 1919.

Clarke, Eliza. Handel. 1885. World's Worker. New York: Haskell, 1972.

Clough, John. Scales, Intervals, Keys and Triads: A Self-Instruction Program. Norton Programed Texts in Music Theory. New York: Norton, 1964.

Collins, Michael and Elise K. Kirk, ed. Opera and Vivaldi. Austin: U of Texas P, 1984.

Coxe, William. Anecdotes of George Frederick Handel and John Christopher Smith: With Select Pieces of Music Composed by J. C. Smith Never Before Published. 1799. Introd. Percy M. Young. Da Capo P Music Rpt. Ser. New York: Da Capo, 1979.

Croucher, Trevor, comp. Early Music Discography: From Plainsong to the Sons of Bach. 2 vols. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx, 1981.

Cudworth, Charles. Handel: A Biography, with a Survey of Books, Editions and Recordings. Concertgoer's Companion. London: Bingley, 1972.

Cummings, William Hayman. Handel, the Duke of Chandos, and the Harmonious Blacksmith. London: Musical News Office, 1915.

Cusins, W. G. Handel's “Messiah”. London: Augener, 1874.

Damais, Émile. Haendel. Classiques Hachette de la Musique. Paris: Hachette, 1970.

Darrell, R. D. Good Listening. New York: Knopf, 1953.

Davey, Henry. History of English Music. 1921. Da Capo P Music Rpt. Ser. 2nd ed. New York: Da Capo, 1969.

Davison, Archibald T. Bach and Handel: The Consummation of the Baroque in Music. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1951.

Dean, Winton. Handel's Dramatic Oratorios and Masques. London: Oxford UP, 1959.

---. Handel and the Opera Seria. Ernest Bloch Lectures 1. Berkeley: U of California P, 1969.

Dean, Winton and Anthony Hicks. Haendel. Trans. Paul Couturiau. Monaco: Rocher, 1985.

Dean, Winton and Merrill Knapp. Handel's Operas: 1704-1726. Oxford: Clarendon, 1987.

Dearnley, Christopher. English Church Music, 1650-1750: In Royal Chapel, Cathedral and Parish. Studies in Church Music. Gen. ed. Erik Routley. London: Barrie, 1970.

Dent, Edward. Handel. Great Musicians Ser. New York: Wyn, 1934.

---. Händel in England. Hallische Universitätsreden 68. Halle: Niemeyer, 1936.

Deutsch, Otto Erich. Handel: A Documentary Biography. 1955. Da Capo P Music Rpt. Ser. New York: Da Capo, 1974.

Dimond, Peter. Music Made Simple. Made Simple Books. London: Heinemann, 1982.

Donington, Robert. A Performer's Guide to Baroque Music. New York: Scribner, 1973.

---. The Rise of Opera. London: Faber, 1981.

Dorian, Frederick. The History of Music in Performance: The Art of Musical Interpretation from the Renaissance to Our Day. 1942. Fwd. Eugene Ormandy. New York: Norton, 1966.

Duckles, Vincent, comp. Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography. 3rd ed. New York: Free, 1974.

Duleba, Opracowal Wladyslaw and Teksty Zofia Sokolowska. Haendel. Krakow: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, n.d.

Eisen, Walter and Margret Eisen, eds. Händel-Handbuch. Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Stiftung ed. 4 vols. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1978.

Eisenschmidt, Joachim. Die Szenische Darstellung der Opern Händels auf der Londoner Bühne seiner Zeit. Schriftenreihe des Handelhauses in Halle 5. Vol. 1. Wolfenbüttel: Kallmeyer, 1940.

Elson, Louis C. Elson's Pocket Music Dictionary: The Important Terms Used in Music with Their Pronunciation and Definition, Together with the Elements of Notation and a Biographical List of over Seven Hundred Noted Names in Music. N.p.: Ditson, 1909.

Engel, Louis. From Handel to Hallé: Biographical Sketches, with Autobiographies of Prof. Huxley and Prof. Herkomer. 1890. Essay Index Rpt. Ser. New York: Books for Libraries, 1972.

Farmer, Henry George. Handel's Kettledrums and Other Papers on Military Music. London: Hinrichsen, 1965.

Flower, Newman. George Frideric Handel: His Personality and His Times. Rev. ed. New York: Scribner's, 1948.

Foreman, Lewis, ed. Discographies: A Bibliography of Catalogues of Recordings, Mainly Relating to Subjects, Composers and Performers. Triad Press Bibliographical Ser. 1. London: Triad, n.d.

Fortune, Nigel, ed. Music and Theatre: Essays in Honour of Winton Dean. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987.

Friedenthal, Richard. Händel. Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch, 1959.

Frost, Miriam and Keith McCormick. “Messiah”: A Photographic Meditation on Handel's Messiah. Oak Grove, MN: Winston, 1978.

Fuller-Maitland, J. A. The Age of Bach and Handel. 2nd ed. Oxford History of Music 4. New York: Cooper Square, 1973.

Gallois, Jean. Haendel. Solfeges 39. Paris: Seuil, 1980.

Garfield, Leon. The House of Hanover: England in the Eighteenth Century. Mirror of Britain Ser. London: Deutsch, 1976.

Gay, John. The Beggar's Opera: To Which Is Added the Music of Each Song. Introd. A. P. Herbert. Illus. Mariette Lydis. New York: Heritage, 1937.

Gleason, Harold and Warren Becker. Music in the Baroque. 3rd ed. Lit. Outlines Ser. 2. Bloomington: Frangipani, 1980.

Gorali, Moshe and Rivke Watson. The Old Testament in the Works of George Frideric Handel. AMLI Studies in Music Bibliog. 6. Israel: Haifa Music Museum & AMLI Lib., n.d.

Gray, Michael H. and Gerald D. Gibson, eds. Bibliography of Discographies: Classical Music, 1925-1975. 1 vol. New York: Bowker, 1977.

Grew, Eva and Sydney Grew. Bach. 1947. Gen. ed. J. A. Westrup . Master Musicians. London: Dent, 1961.

Haake, Claus, ed. Georg Friedrich Händel: Chorsätze aus Opern, Oratorien, Oden und anderen Chorwerken. Halle: Zentralhaus-Publikation, 1984.

Hadden, J. C. Life of Handel. 1904. Kelkel Ser. of Vol. Relative to Song, Music and Biog. New York: AMS, 1976.

Hall, James S. G. F. Handel: The Story of His Life and Work. Great Masters Ser. London: Boosey, 1963.

Handel-Festkomitee der Stadt Halle, ed. Wege zu Händel: Eine Sammlung von Aufsätzen. Halle: Mitteldeutscher, 1953.

Hanslick, Eduard. The Beautiful in Music. 1854. Trans. Gustav Cohen. Ed. Morris Weitz. New York: Liberal Arts, 1957.

Harley, John. Music in Purcell's London: The Social Background. Ed. Percy M. Young. Student's Musical Lib. Historical and Critical Studies. London: Dobson, 1968.

Harris, Ellen T. Handel and the Pastoral Tradition. London: Oxford UP, 1980.

Harris, Ellen T., ed. The Librettos of Handel’s Operas: A Collection of Sevety-One Librettos Documenting Handel’s Operatic Career. 13 vols. New York: Garland, 1989.

Haskell, Harry. The Early Music Revival: A History. London: Thames, 1988.

Haweis, H. R. Music and Morals. New York: Harper, 1871.

Hawkins, John. A General History of the Science and Practice of Music. 1853. Introd. Charles Cudworth. 2 vols. New York: Dover, 1963.

Herbage, Julian. “Messiah”. World of Music. Ed. George Franckenstein and Otto Erich Deutsch. New York: Chanticleer, 1948.

Heriot, Angus. The Castrati in Opera. 1956. New York: Da Capo, 1974.

Hill, Cecil. Handel's Imeneo: A Pre-Edition Study. Occasional Paper 4. Australia: U of New England Dept. of Music, 1987.

Hitzig, Wilhelm. Georg Friedrich Händel 1685-1759: Sein Leben in Bildern. Meyers bunte Bändchen. Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, n.d.

Hogwood, Christopher. Handel. Chronological Table by Anthony Hicks. London: Thames, 1984.

Hogwood, Christopher, and Richard Luckett, ed. Music in Eighteenth-Century England: Essays in Memory of Charles Cudworth. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983.

Holst, Imogen. An ABC of Music: A Short Practical Guide to the Basic Essentials of Rudiments, Harmony, and Form. 1963. London: Oxford UP, 1980.

Horwood, Frederick J. The Basis of Music. Toronto: Thompson, 1944.

Hutchings, A. J. B. The Baroque Concerto. 2nd ed. London: Faber, 1963.

Jacobi, Peter. The “Messiah” Book: The Life and Times of G. F. Handel's Greatest Hit. New York: St. Martin's, 1982.

Jewish Historical Society of England. Anglo-Jewish Notabilities: Their Arms and Testamentary Dispositions. London: Jewish Hist. Soc. of England, 1949.

Jones, George Thaddeus. Music Theory. New York: Barnes, 1974.

Joy, Charles R. Music in the Life of Albert Schweitzer: With Selections from His Writings. New York: Harper, 1951.

Keates, Jonathan. Handel: The Man and His Music. London: Gollancz, 1985.

Kemp, Annie E. George Frederick Handel: A Biographical Story of This Famous Musical Composer of the Eighteenth Century. Reading, PA: Reading Eagle, 1948.

Kerman, Joseph. Musicology. London: Fontana, 1985.

King, A. Hyatt. Handel and His Autographs. 1967. London: British Lib., 1979.

Kolodin, Irving. The Guide to Long-Playing Records: Orchestral Music. 1955. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1978.

Krummel, Donald William, comp. Guide for Dating Early Published Music: A Manual of Bibliographical Practices. Hackensack, NJ: Boonin, 1974.

Labie, Jean-Francois. George Frédéric Haendel. Paris: Laffont, 1980.

Landon, H. C. Robbins. Handel and His World. Boston: Little, 1984.

Lang, Paul Henry. George Frideric Handel. New York: Norton, 1966.

Larsen, Jens Peter. Handel's “Messiah”: Origin, Composition, Sources. 1957. New York: Norton, 1972.

Lebrecht, Norman. Hush! Handel's in a Passion: Tales of Bach, Handel and Their Contemporaries. London: Deutsch, 1985.

Leichtentritt, Hugo. Händel. Stuttgart: Deutsch Verlags-Anstalt, 1924.

---. Music, History, and Ideas. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1944.

Lewin, Waldtraut, and Miriam Margraf. Georg Friedrich Händel: Ein Sachse unter Angelsachsen Biografie. Berlin: Vlg. Neues Leben, 1984.

Lewis, Anthony, and Nigel Fortune, eds. Opera and Church Music, 1630-1750. London: Oxford UP, 1975.

Lindgren, Lowell. The Accomplishments of the Learned and Ingenious Nicola Francesco Haym (1678-1729). Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1988.

Mackerness, E. D. A Social History of English Music. Ed. Harold Perkin. Studies in Social Hist. London: Routledge, 1964.

Macpherson, Stewart. Rudiments of Music. 1939. New ch. by Anthony Payne. New York: Galliard, 1970.

Mainwaring, John. Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel. 1760. Fwd. J. Merrill Knapp. Da Capo P Music Rpt. Ser. New York: Da Capo, 1980.

Mann, Alfred, et al. Handel-Diskographie : Die Oratorien, Serenaden und Oden. Bd. 2. N.p.: n.p., n.d.

Marshall, Julian, Mrs. George Frederick Handel, 1685-1759. Fwd. Francesco Berger. London: Sampson, n.d.

Marx, Hans Joachim, ed. Göttinger Händel-Beiträge. Vol. 1. N.p.: Bärenreiter, 1984.

---, ed. Händel und Hamburg: Ausstellung Anlässlich des 300. Geburtstages von Georg Friedrich Händel: Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky 15. Mai bis 29. Juni 1985. Hamburg: Vlg. der Musikalienhandlung Karl Dieter Wagner, 1985.

Mattheson, Johannes. Grundlage einer Ehrenpforte. Ed. Max Schneider. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1969.

McCabe, Joseph E. Handel's “Messiah”: A Devotional Commentary. N.p.: Westminster, n.d.

Meier, Heinz. Typus und Funktion der Chorsätze in Georg Friedrich Händels Oratorien. Neue Musikgeschichtliche Forschungen 5. Gen. ed. Lothar Hoffman-Erbrecht. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf, 1971.

Meyerhoff, Walter, ed. 50 Jahre Göttinger Händel-Festspiele: Festschrift. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1970.

Meynell, Hugo Anthony. The Art of Handel's Operas. Studies in the Hist. And Interpretation of Music 2. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1986.

Miller, Hugh M. Introduction to Music: A Guide to Good Listening. 2nd ed. Barnes & Noble Outline Ser. 109. New York: Barnes, 1978.

Moser, Hans Joachim. Georg Friedrich Händel. Kassel: Bärenreiter, n.d.

Mueller von Asow, Hedwig, and E. H. Mueller von Asow, ed. Georg Friedrich Händel: Biographie Briefe und Schriften. Hildesheim: Olms, 1977.

Müller, Erich H., ed. The Letters and Writing of George Frideric Handel. 1935. New York: Books for Libraries, 1970.

Myers, Robert Manson. Handel, Dryden, and Milton: Being a Series of Observations on the Poems of Dryden and Milton, as Alter'd and Adapted by Various Hands, and Set to Musick by Mr. Handel. To Which Are Added Authentick Texts of Several of Mr. Handel's Oratorio's [sic]. 1956. N.p.: Folcroft, 1970.

---. Handel’s “Messiah”: A Touchstone of Taste. 1941. New York: Octagon, 1971.

Nalbach, Daniel. The King's Theatre: 1704-1867: London's First Italian Opera House. London: Soc. for Theatre Research, 1972.

Nectoux, Jean-Michel, comp. Phonographies : Gabriel Fauré 1900-1977. Phonographies 1. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, Département de la phonothèque nationale et de l’audiovisuel, 1979.

Nettl, Paul. Georg Fredrick Händel. Berlin: Merseburger, 1958.

Newman, Joyce. Jean-Baptiste de Lully and His Tragédies Lyriques. Studies in Musicology 1. N.p.: UMI Research, 1979.

Newman, William S. The Sonata in the Baroque Era. 3rd ed. New York: Norton, 1972.

Norman, John. The Organs of Britain: An Appreciation and Gazetteer. Newton Abbott, Eng.: David, 1984.

Palisca, Claude V. Baroque Music. Ed. Wiley Hitchcock. Hist. Of Music Ser. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice, 1968.

Parker-Hale, Mary Ann. G. F. Handel: A Guide to Research. Garland Composer Resource Manuals 19. Garland Reference Lib. of the Humanities 717. New York: Garland, 1988.

Pearce, Charles E. "Polly Peachum": Being the Story of Lavinia Fenton (Duchess of Bolton) and "The Beggar's Opera". London: Paul, 1913.

Pearson, Mary D. Recordings in the Public Library. Chicago, IL: American Lib. Assn., 1963.

Petzoldt, Richard. Georg Friedrich Händel: Sein Leben in Bildern. Leipzig: VEB Bibliographisches Institut, 1955.

Peyser, Herbert F. George Frideric Handel. New York: Philharmonic-Symphony Soc. of New York, 1951.

Piper, David. Artists' London. London: Weidenfeld, 1982.

Pirrotta, Nino, and Agostino Ziino. Händel e Gli Scarlatti a Roma: Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Roma, 12-14 Guigno 1985). Firenze: Olschki, 1987.

Plumb, J. H. England in the Eighteenth Century. Pelican Hist. Of England 7. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1963.

Plumb, John Harold. The First Four Georges. London: Collins, 1966.

Quantz, Johann Joachim. On Playing the Flute. Trans. Edward R. Reilly. 2nd ed. London: Faber, 1985.

Rackwitz, Werner. Georg Friedrich Händel: Lebensbeschreibung in Bildern. 1752. Leipzig: VEB Deutscher Vlg. für Musik, 1986.

Rackwitz, Werner, and Helmut Steffens. George Frideric Handel: A Biography in Pictures. Leipzig: VEB Edition Leipzig, 1962.

Ramsay, E. B. Two Lectures on the Genius of Handel and the Distinctive Character of His Sacred Compositions. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1862.

Raynor, Henry. Music in England. London: Hale, 1980.

---. A Social History of Music: From the Middle Ages to Beethoven. New York: Taplinger, 1978.

Reed, Michael. The Georgian Triumph: 1700-1830. Making of Britain 1066-1939. Gen. ed. Andrew Wheatcroft. London: Paladin, 1984.

Robinson, P. Handel and His Orbit. Fwd. Jens Peter Larsen. Da Capo P Music Rpt. Ser. New York: Da Capo, 1979.

Rockstro, W. S. The Life of George Frederick Handel. London: Macmillan, 1883.

Rolland, Romain. Handel. 1916. Trans. and Intro. A. Eaglefield Hull. New York: AMS, 1971.

Routh, Francis. Early English Organ Music from the Middle Ages to 1837. New York: Barnes, 1973.

Sadie, Stanley. Handel. Illustrated Calderbook Cb. 60. London: Calder, 1962.

---. Handel. Great Composers. New York: Crowell, 1969.

---. Handel Concertos. BBC Music Guides. Seattle: U of Washington P, 1973.

Sadie, Stanley, and Anthony Hicks, eds. Handel: Tercentenary Collection. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1987.

Saheb-Ettaba, Caroline and Roger B. McFarland. ANSCR: The Alpha-Numeric System for Classification of Recordings. Williamsport, PA: Bro-Dart, 1969.

Sasse, Konrad, ed. Händel Bibliographie. Zusammengestellt unter Verwendung des im Händel-Jahrbuch 1933 von Kurt Taut veröffentlichten Verzeichnisses des Schrifttums über Georg Friedrich Händel. Mit Nachtrag für die Jahre 1962-1965. Leipzig: VEB Deutscher Vlg. für Musik, 1967.

Schäffer, Julius. Friedrich Chrysander in sein Klavierauszügen zur deutschen Händel-Ausgabe. Leipzig: Leuckart, 1876.

Schmid, Eric. George Frideric Handel: “Messiah”: Introduction and Instructions for Study. Trans. Kurt Michaelis. Frankfurt: Litolff, n.d.

Schœlcher, Victor. The Life of Handel. 1857. Trans. James Lowe. Da Capo P Music Rpt. Ser. New York: Da Capo, 1979.

Scholes, Percy A. The Columbia History of Music through Ear and Eye: Period II: From the Beginning of Opera and Oratorio to the Death of Bach and Handel. 1931. London: Oxford UP, 1949.

---. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Ed. John Owen Ward. 2nd ed. London: Oxford UP, 1964.

Schonberg, Harold C. The Guide to Long-Playing Records: Chamber and Solo Instrument Music. 1955. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1978.

Serauky, Walter. Georg Friedrich Händel: Sein Leben - Sein Werk. Vol. 3-5. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1956.

Shaw, Watkins. The Story of Handel's “Messiah”, 1741-1784. London: Novello, 1963.

---. A Textual and Historical Companion to Handel's “Messiah”. 1965. Rev. ed. London: Novello, 1982.

Siegmund-Schultze, Walther. Georg Friedrich Händel. Leipzig: Deutscher Vlg. für Music, 1980.

---, ed. Georg Friedrich Händel, 1685-1985: Bekenntnisse, Befunde, Berichte. Halle: n.p., 1985.

---, ed. Georg Friedrich Händel: Beiträge zu seiner Biographie aus dem 18. Jahrhundert. Leipzig: Reclam, 1977.

---. Georg Friedrich Händel: Sein Leben, Sein Werk. München: List, 1984.

---. Konzertführer: Georg Friedrich Händel, 1685-1759. Leipzig: VEB Deutscher Vlg. für Musik, 1984.

Simon, Jacob, ed. Handel: A Celebration of His Life and Times. London: National Portrait Gallery, 1985.

Smith, Leo. Music of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. London: Dent, 1931.

Smith, William C. A Bibliography of the Musical Works Published by John Walsh During the Years 1695-1720. Printed for the Bibliographical Soc. London: Oxford UP, 1948.

---. Concerning Handel: His Life and Works. London: Cassell, 1948.

---. Handel: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Early Editions. 2nd ed., with supplement. Assisted by Charles Humphries. Oxford: Blackwell, 1970.

---. A Handelian's Notebook. London: Black, 1965.

Smith, William C. and Charles Humphries. A Bibliography of the Musical Works Published by the Firm of John Walsh During the Years 1721-1766. London: Bibliographical Soc., 1968.

Smither, Howard E. A History of the Oratorio. 2 vols. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1977.

Stevens, Denis. Musicology: A Practical Guide. Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides. London: Macdonald, 1980.

Streatfield, Richard Alexander. Handel. 1910. Rev. 2nd ed. New York: Da Capo, 1964.

Strohm, Reinhard. Essays on Handel and Italian Opera. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985.

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Taylor, Sedley. The Indebtedness of Handel to Works by Other Composers: A Presentation of Evidence. 1906. Fwd. Jens Peter Larsen. Da Capo P Music Rpt. Ser. New York: Da Capo, 1979.

Telle, Karina. Tanzrhythmen in der Vokalmusik Georg Friedrich Händels. Beiträge zur Musikforschung 3. München: Katzbichler, 1977.

Tobin, John. Handel's Messiah: A Critical Account of the Manuscript Sources and Printed Editions. New York: St. Martin's, 1969.

---. Handel at Work. New York: St. Martin's, 1964.

Trevelyan, George Macaulay. A Shortened History of England. 1942. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1974.

Volbach, Fritz. Georg Friedrich Händel. Berühmte Musiker 2. Ed. Heinrich Reimann. Berlin: Harmonie Verlagsgesellschaft für Literatur und Kunst, 1898.

---. Georg Friedrich Händel. Berühmte Musiker 2. Berlin: Schlesische Verlagsanstalt, n.d.

Walker, Ernest. A History of Music in England. 1952. 3rd rev. ed. Ed. J. A. Westrup. Da Capo P Music Rpt. Ser. New York: Da Capo, 1978.

Weinstock, Herbert. Handel. 1959. 2nd rev. ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1979.

Westrup, J. A. Handel. Novello Short Biographies. Borough Green: Novello, n.d.

White, Eric Walter. A History of English Opera. London: Faber, 1983.

---. The Rise of English Opera. Introd. Benjamin Britten. Da Capo Music Rpt. Ser. Gen. ed. Frederick Freedman. New York: Da Capo, 1972.

White, Eric Walter, comp. A Register of First Performances of English Operas and Semi-Operas: From the Sixteenth Century to 1980. London: Soc. for Theatre Research, 1983.

Whittingham, Alfred. The Life and Works of Handel. Reeves Music Primers: Biog. Ser. 2. London: Reeves, 1882.

Williams, Basil. The Whig Supremacy: 1714-1760. 1939. Rev. C. H. Stuart. Ed. George Clark. 2nd ed. Oxford History of England 11. Oxford: Clarendon, 1962.

Williams, C. F. Abdy. Handel. Ed. Frederick J. Crowest. Master Musicians. London: Dent, 1901.

Williams, Peter, ed. Bach, Handel, Scarlatti: Tercentenary Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985.

Yorke-Long, Alan. Music at Court: Four Eighteenth-Century Studies. Pref. Patrick Trevor-Roper. Introd. Edward Dent. London: Weidenfeld, 1954.

Young, Percy M. Handel. 1947. Master Musicians. Rev. ed. London: Dent, 1961.

---. Handel. 1966. Masters of Music. New York: Cornerstone Lib., 1968.

---. Handel. 1947. Master Musicians. Rev. ed. London: Dent, 1975.

---. In Search of Music. Illus. Richard Kennedy. London: Lutterworth, 1956.

---. “Messiah”: A Study in Interpretation. Student's Music Lib. Ser. London: Dobson, 1951.

---. The Oratorios of Handel. London: Dobson, 1949.