George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents. Volume 3. 1734–1742
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 1565472
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107019553
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The volume is the outcome of over 13 years’ research (Coffey’s contribution; c.30%). It comprises c.350,000 words and has entailed the pain-staking processes of locating and transcribing all known sources about Handel from 1734 to 1742 (hundreds of documents including newspaper advertisements and reports, private papers, administrative records, contemporary publications and annotations on musical scores) from some 70 archives and libraries worldwide. Each of the document texts is accompanied by a commentary explaining the context and details of each source. Commentaries are based on further extensive research which used an array of archival and library sources worldwide.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The volume is the outcome of over 13 years’ research by four scholars (Anthony Hicks passed away in 2010, at which point John Greenacombe joined the project as an editor. At any one point, there have therefore been three editors working on the book). Coffey ’s research for George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents. Volume 3: 1734-1742 began in autumn 2007. While the three remaining editors (Burrows, Coffey, Greenacombe) bring different areas of expertise to the project, their overall contributions have been equal: Coffey has been involved in every stage of the preparation of the book, contributing c.30% of the research it represents. Through extensive research involving archives and libraries worldwide, she has located and transcribed hundreds of documents in English, German, Dutch, Swedish, French, Italian and Latin. In doing so, she has discovered new, unpublished Handel sources and rediscovered items that were previously thought lost. Her work has thereby provided new insights into the reception of Handel’s music, in both the UK and other European countries. Coffey has also established new connections between sources presented in the volumes, linking documents created in different contexts and countries to provide the fullest possible picture of Handel’s work and influence. She has also had major responsibility for the presentation of foreign-language texts, ensuring that translations are both idiomatic, and informative for both Handel experts and non-specialists. The writing of the commentaries that accompany every document transcript in the volume has involved further extensive research. For these, Coffey has consulted further archival and printed sources, as well as previous relevant scholarship, in order to explain both the broader context and more specific details of each source. Research for the commentaries has unearthed previously overlooked sources as well as connections between documents and the information they contain.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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