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By Howard E. Smither

With this quantity, Howard Smither completes his huge History of the Oratorio. Volumes 1 and a couple of, released via the collage of North Carolina Press in 1977, taken care of the oratorio within the Baroque period, whereas quantity three, released in 1987, explored the style within the Classical period. right here, Smither surveys the heritage of 19th- and twentieth-century oratorio, stressing the most geographic parts of oratorio composition and function: Germany, Britain, the USA, and France.

Continuing the method of the former volumes, Smither treats the oratorio in each one language and geographical region by way of first exploring the cultural and social contexts of oratorio. He then addresses aesthetic conception and feedback, treats libretto and song commonly, and provides distinctive analyses of the librettos and track of particular oratorios (thirty-one in all) which are of precise significance to the background of the genre.

As a synthesis of specialised literature in addition to an research of fundamental assets, this paintings will function either a springboard for extra examine and an important reference for choral conductors, soloists, choral singers, and others drawn to the historical past of the oratorio.

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