Dance in Handel's London Operas

In considering Handel's imaginative response to a range of contemporary theatrical dance styles and practices, this study demonstrates that dance was far from peripheral to the genre of opera seria. The importance of London as a leading centre for dance innovation, and the interaction between various theatrical genres regarding the use of dance, is also established.

Marie Sallé as muse, Handel's music for mime

Considers Handel's musical response to a dancer-choreographer in line with then-current styles of dance

'Handel's unpublished dance music':A perspective on his approach to composition

Provides incipits of the dances not then in modern editions.