Overview

This book offers a deep analysis of Handel’s Twelve Grand Concertos, Op. 6, a part of Handel’s repertoire which has remained relatively understudied. Bringing together an analytical approach to the concertos with their historical context, the author shows how studying these concertos offers new insights into Handel’s innovative and deeply individual compositional techniques, reframing our modern understanding of Handel as a composer. Refocusing scholarly attention on the crucial role of the orchestra, this book demonstrates how Handel utilised a unique compositional strategy that involved juxtaposing and fusing elements of different concerto types, including the grosso, ripieno, solo, and hybrid concerto. Revealing the remarkable consistency and creative deployment of the multilayered interconnections between concerto types in these works, this study shows that they represent a novel development in the history of the concerto genre. Shedding new light on Handel’s Grand Concertos, on Handel as a composer, and the history of the concerto, this book is relevant to Handel scholars, musicologists, music theorists, and all those with a serious interest in Handel and eighteenth-century music.

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Author:   Vadym Rakochi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032983486

ISBN 10:   1032983485
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   12 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Figures, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Glossary, Chapter one: The concerto and the orchestra, Three constitutive attributes of the instrumental concerto. Non-concerto cases, The birth of the orchestra, Orchestra vs ensemble: similarity vs difference, Chapter two: Types and models of the instrumental concertos, Problems of the instrumental concerto classifications. Concerto grosso, Concerto ripieno and solo concerto, Concerto Models: Handel's Reconsideration of the Corellian Concerto Model, Chapter three: Analysis of the twelve grand concertos op. 6, Introduction, First Concerto, Second Concerto, Third Concerto, Fourth Concerto, Fifth Concerto, Sixth Concerto, Seventh Concerto, Eighth Concerto, Ninth Concerto, Tenth Concerto, Eleventh Concerto, Twelfth Concerto, Conclusions, Table of concerto types, Index, References

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Vadym Rakochi, Lecturer in the Department of Music and Scientific Collaborator at the Institute for Music Research at Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland (2022–2025), is currently a Docent at Basel University, Switzerland.

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