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  Croesus (Keiser)

  Croft, William

  Cromwell, Oliver

  Culloden, Battle of

  Cumberland, William Duke of

  Cuzzoni, Francesca

  Czernohorsky, Bohuslav

  D’Alembert, Jean Le Round

  Dallapiccola, Luigi

  Dalton, John

  D’Annunzio, Gabriele

  Dante Alighieri

  da Ponte, Lorenzo

  Dardanus (Rameau)

  Dario (Ariosti)

  Darwin, Charles

  Davenant, Sir William

  Davide e Bersabea (Porpora)

  David’s Lamentations over Saul and Jonathan (J. C. Smith, Jr.)

  Dean, Winton

  Deborah (Greene)

  Defesch, William

  Defoe, Daniel

  Deism

  Delany, Dr. Patrick

  Delany, Mrs. Patrick

  Della Ciaia, Alessandro

  Denham, Sir John

  Denner, Balthasar

  Dent, Edward J.

  De Quincey, Thomas

  Descartes, René

  Deutsch, Otto Erich

  Deutsche Messe (Luther)

  Deutsche Passion, Die (Burck)

  Devonshire, third Duke of

  devozioni

  Diabelli, Anton

  Dickens, Charles

  Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)

  Dieupart, Charles

  Dilthey, Wilhelm

  Dioclesian (Purcell)

  Diocletian, Emperor

  Discorso musicale (G. M. Bononcini)

  Discourse on Music, Painting, and Poetry (Harris)

  Dolci, Carlo

  Don Carlo (Verdi)

  Don Giovanni (Mozart)

  Doni, Giovanni Battista

  Downes, John

  Draghi, Antonio

  Dragon of Wantley, The (Lampe-Carey)

  dramma sacro

  Dream of Gerontius, The (Elgar)

  Dresden

  Dryden, John

  Dublin

  Dubourg, Matthew

  Duburk, John

  Duetti da camera (Bononcini)

  Duetti e terzetti (Pistocchi)

  Dunciad, The (Pope)

  Dunstable, John

  Duparc, Elisabeth, see Francesina

  Durante, Francesco

  Durastanti, Margherita

  Diirer, Albrecht

  Düsseldorf

  Ebner, Wolfgang

  Ecce quomodo moritur (Gallus)

  Eccles, John

  Edwards, Miss (singer)

  Elements of Criticism (Home)

  Elgar, Sir Edward

  Elijah (Mendelssohn)

  Eliot, T. S.

  Elizabeth, daughter of James I,

  Elmenhorst, Heinrich

  Engel, Hans

  Engel, Johann Jakob

  English music (in Handel’s time)

  “English opera,” see English theatre

  English theatre:

  attitude towards lyric stage

  ballad opera

  and classical tradition

  French influence on

  pastoral, masque, semi-opera, “English opera,”

  Épine, Francesca Margherita 1’

  Erba, Dionigi

  Erlebach, Philipp Heinrich

  Erminia (Bononcini)

  Ernst, Prince of Hanover

  Ernst Augustus, Elector of Hanover

  Essay on Criticism (Pope)

  Essay on Dramatic Poesy (Dryden)

  Essay on Man (Pope)

  Essay on Musical Expression (Avison)

  Esther (Racine)

  Etearco (Bononcini)

  Euripides

  Evelyn, John

  Ewerhart, Rudolf

  Exsultate jubilate (Mozart)

  Fabri, Annibale

  Fairy Queen, The (Purcell)

  Fairy Queen, The (Spenser)

  Faithful Shepherdess, The (Fletcher)

  Falkener, Robert

  Farinel, Jean Baptiste (Farinelli)

  Farinelli (Carlo Broschi)

  Farnace (Bononcini)

  Farrant, Richard

  Fedeli, Ruggiero

  Feind, Barthold

  Fénelon, François de

  Ferrara

  Festing, Michael

  Fêtes d’Hébé, Les (Rameau)

  Fidelio (Beethoven)

  Fielding, Henry

  Filippo Lippi, Fra

  Fischer, J. K. F.

  Fitzgerald, Edward

  Fletcher, John

  Flögel, Bruno

  Flood, W. H. Grattan

  Flora, La (Jeppesen)

  Florence

  Florilegium (Muffat)

  Flower, Sir Newman

  Foggia, Antonio

  Foggia, Francesco

  Forkel, Johann Nikolaus

  Forza della virtù, La (Keiser)

  Foundling Hospital (Halle)

  Foundling Hospital (London)

  France, Anatole

  Francesina, Signora (singer)

  Francke, August Hermann

  Franz, Robert

  Frasi, Giulia

  Frederick, Elector, later Frederick I of Prussia

  Frederick II of Prussia (the Great)

  Frederick, Prince of Wales

  French classical drama

  influence on English theatre

  on opera and oratorio

  Frescobaldi, Girolamo

  Froberger, Johann Jakob

  frottola

  Fux, Johann Joseph

  Gainsborough, Thomas

  Galerati, Catterina

  Galli, Caterina

  Galliard, John Ernest

  Gallus, Jacobus (Handl)

  Galuppi, Baldassare

  Gambarini, Elisabetta

  Garrick, David

  Gasparini, Francesco

  Gates, Bernard

  Gatti-Casazza, Giulio

  Gautier, Théophile

  Gay, John

  Geistliche Konzerte (Schütz)

  Geliebet sei der Herr (J. Krieger)

  Geminiani, Francesco

  Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover, see George I of England

  George I of England: as Elector of Hanover, as King.

  George II of England: as Prince of Wales; as King

  George III of England

  George Barnwell (Lillo)

  Gervinus, Gottfried

  Giasone (Cavalli)

  Gibbon, Edward

  Gibbons, Orlando

  Gibson, Bishop Edmund

  Giotto

  Girardeau, Isabella

  Girdlestone, Cuthbert

  Gladstone, William Ewart

  Gloucester, Duke of

  Gluck, Christoph Willibald 152ff.

  God Spake Sometime in Visions (Blow)

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

  Goldoni, Carlo

  Goldsmith, Oliver

  Combosi, Otto

  Goossens, Eugene

  Gopsall

  Gordon, Mr. (singer)

  Goupy, Joseph

  Grabu, Louis

  Grandi, Alessandro

  Granville, Ann

  Granville, Bernard

  Granville, Mary, see Delany, Mrs. Patrick

  Graun, Karl Heinrich

  Graupner, Christoph

  Gravina, Giovanni Vincenzo

  Gray, Cecil

  Greber, Johann Jakob

  Greco, El

  Greco, Gaetano

  Greek drama. 274, 361, 367f.

  role in Handelian oratorio

  Green, John Richard

  Greene, Maurice

  Gregory the Great, Pope

  Grimani, Vincenzo, Cardinal

  Grimm, Baron Friedrich Melchior

  Griselda (Bononcini)

  Grosse Generalbass-Schule (Mattheson)

  Grout, Donald

  Grundlage einer Ehrenpforte (Mattheson)

  Guadagni, Gaetano

  Guarini, Giovanni Battista

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p; Guéranger, Dom Prosper

  Guicciardi, Signor (singer)

  Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden

  Haas, Robert

  Habeneck, François-Antoine

  Habermann, Franz Wenzel

  Hagen, Oskar

  Halle

  Hamburg

  Hamilton, Newburgh

  Hamlet (Shakespeare)

  Hammerschmidt, Andreas

  Händel, Dorothea Sophia (Michaelsen), Handel’s sister

  Händel, Dorothea Taust, Handel’s mother

  Händel, Georg, Handel’s father

  HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC

  General:

  attitude towards composers; performers

  and Bach

  biography (German); (English)

  borrowings

  the businessman

  and Catholicism

  character

  composer versus impresario

  earnings

  and English music

  and English opera

  indebtedness to classical antiquity

  knowledge of English

  and Nature

  organ playing

  religion

  as teacher

  and women

  Elements of Style:

  aria: as mainstay of opera; da capo and motto; choral; continuo; concerted; difference between oratorio and opera aria; polarity with recitative; simile

  basso continuo

  cantus firmus work

  ensemble

  French influence

  harmony

  melody

  recitative

  rhythm and meter

  symbolism

  tonal concordances

  Opera:

  general; see also Baroque opera

  chorus in

  comic element

  role in opera reform

  Oratorio:

  general

  classifications of

  comparisons with Italo-German species

  inception of “religious issue,”

  instrumental pieces in

  Old Testament and

  Racine’s drama and

  Performance Practice:

  general

  additional accompaniments and transcriptions

  basso continuo

  chorus

  continuity

  orchestra

  organ

  ornamentation

  reconstruction of scores

  tempo and dynamics

  Händel, Johanna Christiana, Handel’s sister

  Händelgeselischaft edition, see Chrysander, Friedrich

  Hanover

  Hanslick, Eduard

  Harris, James

  Harris, Thomas

  Harris, William

  Hart, James

  Harty, Sir Hamilton

  Hasse, Johann Adolf

  Hawkins, Sir John

  Haydn, Joseph

  Hayes, William

  Haym, Nicola

  Hearne, Dr. Thomas

  Heidegger, John Jacob

  Heinichen, Johann David

  Hemingway, Ernest

  Herbage, Julian

  Hercules auf dem Scheidewege (Bach)

  Herder, Johann Gottfried

  hermeneutics

  Hero and Leander (Musaeus)

  Herodotus

  Herrick, Robert

  Herring, Archbishop

  Hesiod

  Heuss, Alfred

  Hill, Aaron

  Hill, John

  Hiller, Johann Adam

  Hippolyte et Aricie (Rameau)

  historia; see also Passion

  Historia des Leidens und Sterbens unsers Herrn Jesu Christi (Krieger)

  Hobbes, Thomas

  Hogarth, William

  Holinshed, Raphael

  Holmes, Dr. William

  Home, Henry

  Homer

  Hortus Musicus (Reinken)

  Hughes, John

  Hume, David

  Humphrey, Pelham

  Humphreys, Samuel

  Hunold, Christian Friedrich

  Huntingdon, Selina, Countess of

  Hussey, Mr. (singer)

  Hutcheson, Francis

  Hutchings, Arthur

  Hyntzsch, Johann Georg

  Hyntzsch, Michael

  Idaspe fedele, L’ (Mancini)

  Iliad (Homer)

  In una siepe ombrosa (Lotti)

  Indes galantes, Les (Rameau)

  India, Sigismondo d’

  Inganno fedele, L’ (Keiser)

  Innocent III, Pope

  Innocent XI, Pope

  Innocent XII, Pope

  Iphigenie (Goethe)

  Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck)

  Irving, Washington

  Jahn, Otto

  James I of England

  Jennens, Charles

  Jephte (Carissimi)

  Jephthah (Greene)

  Jeppesen, Knud

  Jews and Judas Maccabaeus

 

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