Handel’s Messiah: Comfort for God’s People
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Overview
If you want to enjoy and appreciate Handel’s beloved Messiah more deeply, this informed yet accessible guide is the book to read. Here you will find fascinating historical background to Messiah, including its unlikely inception, and learn about its reception and impact from Handel’s day to our own. Calvin Stapert devotes most of his book to scene-by-scene musical and theological commentary on the entire score, demonstrating how the music of Messiah beautifully intertwines with and illuminates its biblical text. Through these pages Handel’s popular and much-loved masterpiece will be greatly enhanced for listeners old and new alike.
- Title: Handel’s Messiah: Comfort for God’s People
- Author: Calvin R. Stapert
- Series: The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Liturgical Studies
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759 › Messiah
- ISBNs: 9780802865878, 0802865879
- Resource ID: LLS:HNDLSMSSHGDSPPL
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-19T16:59:39Z