A Textual Companion to Handel's Messiah 彌賽亞

本書提供了有關亨德爾的《彌賽亞》的大量文本和歷史背景資訊。雖然本書的內容來自作者自己的聲樂版和全譜版，但其相關性絕不僅限於該版本。對亨德爾的演唱者和作品手稿來源的調查為研究作品在最初構思之後的改動和發展提供了基礎。此外，還對許多樂章的其他版本進行了評述，從而對最早印刷版本的形式有了一定的瞭解。在對文本權威性進行了重要討論並對個別樂章的讀法進行了評述之後，作者最後對編輯的目的和做法進行了說明"

作者: Watkins Shaw
出版社: Novello
原文簡介:
This book provides an ample background of textual and historical information about Handel's Messiah. Though it arises from the author's work involved in his own edition in vocal and full score, its relevance is by no means confined to that edition. A survey of Handel's singers and of manuscript sources of the work provides the basis for an investigation onto the alterations and development to which the work was subject after its original conception. The alternative versions of numerous movements are also reviewed and thus a certain amount of light is shed on the form assumed by the earliest printed copies. After an important discussion of textual authority and a commentary on the readings if individual movements, the author concludes with a statement of editorial aims and practices.