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Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel [Kõva köide]

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Edited by (University of Birmingham), Edited by (Bangor University)
  • Formaat: Hardback, 284 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 253x182x19 mm, kaal: 740 g, 16 Printed music items; 2 Halftones, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 29-Jun-2017
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107154642
  • ISBN-13: 9781107154643
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Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to HandelSuurem pilt
  • Formaat: Hardback, 284 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 253x182x19 mm, kaal: 740 g, 16 Printed music items; 2 Halftones, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 29-Jun-2017
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107154642
  • ISBN-13: 9781107154643
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This book is concerned with a hundred years of musical drama in England. It charts the development of the genre from the theatre works of Henry Purcell (and his contemporaries) to the dramatic oratorios of George Frideric Handel (and his). En route it investigates the objections to all-sung drama in English that were articulated in the decades around 1700, various proposed solutions, the importation of Italian opera, and the creation of the dramatic oratorio--English drama, all-sung but not staged. Most of the constituent essays take an in-depth look at a particular aspect of the process, while others draw attention to dramatic qualities in non-dramatic works that also were performed in the theatre. The journey from Purcell to Handel illustrates the vigour and vitality of English theatrical and musical traditions, and Handel's dramatic oratorios and other settings of English questions posed before he was born [ Publisher description]

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'The volume is well edited and clearly and attractively laid out, with footnotes, some of them quite extensive, conveniently presented on the page to which they refer. There are a few musical examples; a bibliography and an index are provided. This excellent collection of papers will be of value to anyone interested in English baroque music and its literary and theatrical connections.' Robert Manning, The Consort Early Music Journal 'This volume of traditional musicology is well wrought, meets the editors' goal of redefining the idea of 'theatre music', and provides, both deliberately and inadvertently, plenty of food for thought.' David Hunter, Notes

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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).
List of Figures
vii
List of Music Examples
viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xv
Introduction 1(4)
Colin Timms
Bruce Wood
I FROM PURCELL TO HANDEL
5(76)
1 Purcell's `Scurvy' Poets
7(18)
Roger Savage
2 Opera as Literature and the Triumph of Music
25(13)
Martin Adams
3 The British Enchanters and George Granville's Theory of Opera
38(11)
Wolfgang Hirschmann
4 Lost Chances: Obstacles to English Opera for Purcell and Handel
49(17)
Jeffrey Barnouw
5 Alexander's Feast, or The Power of Perseverance: Dryden's Plan for English Opera and its Near-fulfilment in a Handel Ode
66(15)
Andrew Pinnock
Bruce Wood
II HANDEL AND ITALIAN OPERA
81(74)
6 Ombra mai fu: Shades of Greece and Rome in the Librettos for Handel's London Operas
83(16)
Peter Brown
7 Handel and the Uses of Antiquity
99(15)
Reinhard Strohm
8 From Metastasio's Alessandro to Handel's Poro: A Change of Dramatic Emphasis
114(12)
Graham Cummings
9 Deidamia as an `Heroi--comi--pastoral' Opera
126(29)
Sarah Mccleave
III HANDEL AND ENGLISH WORKS IN THE THEATRE
155(89)
10 Seventeenth-Century Literary Classics as Eighteenth-Century Libretto Sources: Congreve, Dryden and Milton in the 1730s and 1740s
157(18)
Matthew Gardner
11 `In this Ballance seek a Character': The Role of `Il Moderato' in L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
175(15)
Ruth Smith
12 `Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures': Glancing and Gazing Spectatorship in Handel's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
190(13)
Matthew Badham
13 Accompanied Recitative and Characterisation in Handel's Oratorios
203(19)
Liam Gorry
14 Handel, Charles Jennens and the Advent of Scriptural Oratorio
222(22)
John H. Roberts
Bibliography 244(18)
Index 262
Colin Timms is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham, where he held the Peyton and Barber chair from 1992 to 2012. He is also a trustee of the Gerald Coke Handel Foundation and of the Handel Institute, whose Newsletter he edits, and honorary president of the Forum Agostino Steffani. He has published extensively on Steffani, and his book Polymath of the Baroque: Agostino Steffani and his Music (2013) won a British Academy prize. In addition to works by Steffani and Stradella, he has edited Theodora for the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe and Handel's Comus for Novello. Bruce Wood is Emeritus Professor of Music at Bangor University, and Chairman of the Purcell Society. He is the author of the most recent biography of Purcell (Purcell: An Extraordinary Life, 2009) and editor or co-editor of more than a dozen volumes of music by Purcell and Blow in the Purcell Society Edition and in Musica Britannica.