A Textual Companion to Handel's Messiah 弥赛亚

本书提供了有关亨德尔的《弥赛亚》的大量文本和历史背景信息。虽然本书的内容来自作者自己的声乐版和全谱版，但其相关性绝不仅限于该版本。对亨德尔的演唱者和作品手稿来源的调查为研究作品在最初构思之后的改动和发展提供了基础。此外，还对许多乐章的其他版本进行了评述，从而对最早印刷版本的形式有了一定的了解。在对文本权威性进行了重要讨论并对个别乐章的读法进行了评述之后，作者最后对编辑的目的和做法进行了说明"

作者: Watkins Shaw
出版社: Novello
原文简介:
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.