A Companion to one of the principal creative figures in Baroque music.

Illustrating Handel's oratorios and masques in dramatic form--among them some of the highest achievements of musical drama ever written--Dean here begins by discussing general ...

Three papers, published in 1887, on the nature of music as an art form and its place in society.

The English invented the idea of musical "classics". Eighteenth-century England was the first country where old musical works were performed regularly and reverentially, and ...