Messiah in Full Score (Dover Vocal Scores) by George Frideric Handel, Opera and Choral Scores Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Messiah in Full Score (Dover Vocal Scores)
Book Review: Good, but Superseded
Summary: 4 Stars
This edition of Messiah by Alfred Mann dates from the early 1960s. It is a good edition at an excellent price. For the latest scholarship and all of Handel's variants, however, you should consider the 1998 Oxford University Press edition edited by Clifford Bartlett. For the best guide to the work, read "Handel: Messiah" by Donald Burrows in the Cambridge Music Handbook series.
Paul N. Van de Water
Book Review: Handel Scores
Summary: 5 Stars
This is as good as it gets,score-wise, for Handel's best known piece. Unless you want to spend a lot, this is it !!!
Book Review: Marvelous!
Summary: 5 Stars
Handel's Messiah is one of my favorite works of all time. And nothing goes with a great recording of this exquisite music like a fantastic score - exactly what Dover has provided for us here. Dover sews their books (they don't glue), so you can count on this score's durability, and the print is legible (which can't be said for all music) so you don't have to search out the magnifying glass to read the notes. Masterful music in a high quality book and at a more-than-reasonable price. Do not delay in acquiring this score.
Book Review: Messiah in Full Score
Summary: 5 Stars
From the introduction in the first pages of this book I learned that the reasons performances of MESSIAH are so varied is that Handel himself modified the score to fit the place, season, instrumental musicians available, vocal soloists available at his venues and time allotted to him for its performance. Having this Score to read while listening to a recording has been very educational for me. I have learned to pay attention to the words of the vocal parts and basically not to the notes on the staff.
I am so glad I found this book through Amazon... my listening experience has been enriched.
Book Review: Messiah score
Summary: 5 Stars
I was very happy to obtain my own copy of Messiah. It's very nice quality, at a reasonable price. I chose it because it has the full score - I play oboe and the oboe parts are included, as well as the other instruments.
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