Handel's Dramatic Oratorios and Masques

by Winton Dean

Looking in depth at Handel's oratorios and masques in dramatic form--among them some of the highest achievements of musical drama ever written--Dean here discusses general questions of history, style, and performance, and explains how the oratorios have been progressively misrepresented since
Handel's day; subsequent chapters detail each of his eighteen works in this genre.

708 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1959

About the author

Winton Basil Dean (18 March 1916 – 19 December 2013) was an English musicologist of the 20th century, most famous for his research on the life and works—in particular the operas and oratorios—of George Frideric Handel, as detailed in his book Handel's Dramatic Oratorios and Masques.