Smither, Howard E.

Overview

Works:	142 works in 436 publications in 4 languages and 6,346 library holdings
Genres:	Songs and music Manuscripts Christmas music Academic theses Criticism, interpretation, etc History Drama
Roles:	Author, Editor, Creator, Author of introduction, Other, win
Classifications:	ML3201, 782.8209

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works by Howard E Smither

A history of the oratorio by Howard E Smither( Book )

13 editions published between 1977 and 2012 in English and held by 1,177 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A history of the oratorio by Howard E Smither( )

25 editions published between 1977 and 2012 in English and German and held by 893 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Annotation

A history of the oratorio by Howard E Smither( )

20 editions published between 2000 and 2012 in English and held by 869 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio. Volumes 1 and 2, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1977, treated the oratorio in the Baroque era, while Volume 3, published in 1987, explored the genre in the Classical era. Here, Smither surveys the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century oratorio, stressing the main geographic areas of oratorio composition and performance: Germany, Britain, America, and France. Continuing the approach of the previous volumes, Smither treats the oratorio in each language and geographical area by first

A history of the oratorio by Howard E Smither( )

8 editions published between 1977 and 2012 in English and held by 809 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

History of the Oratorio: Vol. 2: the Oratorio in the Baroque Era: Protestant Germany and England

History of the Oratorio, Vol. 1 : the Oratorio in the Baroque Era by Howard E Smither( )

2 editions published between 1977 and 2012 in English and held by 801 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Howard Smither has written the first definitive work on the history of the oratorio since Arnold Schering published his Geschichte des Oratoriums in 1911. This volume is the first of a four-volume comprehensive study that offers a new synthesis of what is known to date about the oratorio. Volume 1, divided into three parts, opens with the examination of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque antecedents and origins of the oratorio, with emphasis on Rome and Philip Neri's Congregation of the Oratory and with special attention to the earliest works for which the term oratorio seems appropriate

Il Sedecia by Giovanni Legrenzi( )

10 editions published in 1986 in 3 languages and held by 125 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Il sacrificio di Abel by Alessandro Melani( )

13 editions published in 1986 in Italian and English and held by 124 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Oratorios of the Italian baroque( )

12 editions published in 1985 in 3 languages and held by 122 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

David poenitens by Ferdinando Bertoni( )

11 editions published in 1986 in 3 languages and held by 122 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Adamo ed Eva by Baldassare Galuppi( )

10 editions published in 1986 in Italian and English and held by 121 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Oratorio per la nascita di Gesù Cristo by Nicola Porpora( )

7 editions published in 1986 in Italian and Undetermined and held by 120 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Santa Dimna, figlia del re d'Irlanda by Flavio Carlo Lanciani( )

12 editions published in 1986 in 3 languages and held by 119 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Oratorios( )

3 editions published in 1986 in Italian and held by 108 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Theories of rhythm in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with a contribution to the theory of rhythm for the study of twentieth-century music by Howard E Smither( )

16 editions published between 1960 and 1986 in English and held by 88 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A history of the oratorio. Italy, Vienna, Paris by Howard E Smither( Book )

30 editions published between 1977 and 2012 in English and held by 87 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Howard Smither has written the first definitive work on the history of the oratorio since Arnold Schering published his Geschichte des Oratoriums in 1911. This volume is the first of a four-volume comprehensive study that offers a new synthesis of what is known to date about the oratorio. Volume 1, divided into three parts, opens with the examination of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque antecedents and origins of the oratorio, with emphasis on Rome and Philip Neri's Congregation of the Oratory and with special attention to the earliest works for which the term orat

A history of the oratorio. Protestant Germany and England by Howard E Smither( Book )

27 editions published between 1977 and 2012 in English and held by 86 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A history of the oratorio by Howard E Smither( Book )

4 editions published in 1987 in English and held by 44 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The oratorio in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by Howard E Smither( Book )

3 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 38 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The oratorio in the classical era by Howard E Smither( Book )

3 editions published in 1987 in English and held by 29 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Italian oratorio, 1650-1800 : works in a central baroque and classic tradition( )

6 editions published in 1986 in 3 languages and held by 28 WorldCat member libraries worldwide