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Handel’s Grand Concertos Opus 6: Shifts in Compositional Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Handel’s Grand Concertos Opus 6 Shifts in Compositional Perspectives

By Vadym Rakochi Copyright 2026
328 Pages 112 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

328 Pages 125 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Part 1: The concerto and the orchestra 

1. Three constitutive attributes of the instrumental concerto: Non-concerto cases

2. The birth of the orchestra

3. Orchestra vs ensemble: Similarity vs difference

Part 2: Types and models of the instrumental concertos

4. Problems of the instrumental concerto classifications: Concerto grosso

5. Concerto ripieno and solo concerto

6. Concerto models: Handel’s reconsideration of the Corellian concerto model

Part 3: Analysis of the Twelve Grand Concertos Op. 6

7. Introduction

8. First Concerto

9. Second Concerto

10. Third Concerto

11. Fourth Concerto

12. Fifth Concerto

13. Sixth Concerto

14. Seventh Concerto

15. Eighth Concerto

16. Ninth Concerto

17. Tenth Concerto

18. Eleventh Concerto

19. Twelfth Concerto

Conclusions

Biography

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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