Music In The London Theatre From Purcell To Handel
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Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel
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Author | : Colin Timms,Bruce Wood |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : MUSIC |
ISBN | : 1108125573 |
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This book discusses literary and dramatic aspects of musical works for voices and instruments performed in English theatres (c.1650 and 1750).
Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel
Author | : Colin Timms,Bruce Wood |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2017-06-29 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781107154643 |
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This book discusses literary and dramatic aspects of musical works for voices and instruments performed in English theatres (c.1650 and 1750).
Henry Purcell and the London Stage
Author | : C. A. Price |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1984-06-14 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0521238315 |
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This book was the first comprehensive survey of Purcell's dramatic music. It is concerned as much with the London theatre world - playhouses, poets, actors, singers, producers - as with the music itself. Purcell wrote music for more than fifty plays of various types, most of them produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, between 1690 and 1695. The songs, dialogues, choruses, act tunes and larger musical scenes are often active participants in the spoken drama, not simply grafted-on entertainments. The extraordinary semi-operas - Dioclesian, King Arthur, and The Fairy-Queen - are placed in the context of a theatre that thrived mainly on plays that, though less lavish, were no less musical. The traditional picture of a composer trapped within a degraded musical society, his natural predilection for opera ignored, is redrawn to show a consummate dramatist exploiting a remarkably musical theatre.
New Perspectives on Handel s Music
Author | : David Vickers |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2022-10-11 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781783271467 |
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An international collaboration between leading scholars showcases a broad spectrum of observations on Handel and his music, covering many aspects of modern interdisciplinary and traditional philological musicology.
A Poetics of Handel s Operas
Author | : Nathan Link |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2023-03-10 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780197651360 |
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What should we consider when thinking about the relationship between an onstage performance and the story the performance tells? A Poetics of Handel's Operas explores this question by analyzing the narratives of Handel's operas in relation to the rich representational fabric of performance used to convey them. Nathan Link notes that in most storytelling genres, the audience can naturally discern between a story and the way that story is represented: with film, for example, the viewer would recognize that a character hears neither her own voiceover nor the ambient music that accompanies it, whereas in discussions of opera, some audiences may be distracted by the seemingly artificial nature of such conventions as characters singing their dialogue. Link proposes that when engaging with opera, distinguishing between the performance we see and hear on the stage and the story represented offers a meaningful approach to engaging with and interpreting the work. Handel's operas are today the most-performed works in the Baroque opera seria tradition. This genre, with its intricate dramaturgy and esoteric conventions, stands to gain much from an investigation into the relationships between the onstage performance and the story to which that performance directs us. In his analysis, Link offers theoretical studies on opera and narratological theories of literature, drama, and film, providing rich engagement with Handel's work and what it conveys about the relationship between text, story, and performance.
Five Straight Lines
Author | : Andrew Gant |
Publsiher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 591 |
Release | : 2021-11-18 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781782833253 |
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'Fascinating ... Composer Andrew Gant is a masterful guide, introducing readers to the major players and key themes of an entrancing topic.' BBC History Magazine Whether you prefer Baroque or pop, Theremins or violins, the music you love and listen to shapes your world. But what shaped the music? Ranging across time and space, this book takes us on a grand musical tour from music's origins in prehistory right up to the twenty-first century. Charting the leaps in technology, thought and practice that led to extraordinary revolutions of music in each age, the book takes us through medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy and Jazz era America to reveal the rich history of music we still listen to today. From Mozart to McCartney, Schubert to Schoenberg, Professor Andrew Gant brings to life the people who made the music, their techniques and instruments, as well as the places their music was played, from sombre churches to rowdy taverns, stately courts to our very own homes.
Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music
Author | : Joseph P. Swain |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2023-05-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781538151624 |
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Named a Library Journal Best Reference of 2023 - "Bravo! An invaluable source for scholars and concertgoers.” - Library Journal In the history of the Western musical tradition, the Baroque period traditionally dates from the turn of the 17th century to 1750. The beginning of the period is marked by Italian experiments in composition that attempted to create a new kind of secular musical art based upon principles of Greek drama, quickly leading to the invention of opera. The ending is marked by the death of Johann Sebastian Bach in 1750 and the completion of George Frideric Handel’s last English oratorio, Jephtha, the following year. The Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on composers, instruments, cities, and technical terms. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about baroque music.
Opera and Politics in Queen Anne s Britain 1705 1714
Author | : Thomas McGeary |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2022-07-26 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9781783277155 |
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Explores the political meanings that Italian opera - its composers, agents and institutions - had for audiences in eighteenth-century Britain.