Author: Henry PurcellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Birthday Odes for Queen Mary
Author: Henry PurcellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Works of Henry Purcell: Birthday odes for Queen Mary, part 1
Author: Henry PurcellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Instrumental music
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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The Laureateship
Author: Edmund Kemper BroadusPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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The Oxford Dictionary of Music
Author: Michael KennedyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199578540
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 971
Book Description
Now available in paperback and with over 10,000 entries, the Oxford Dictionary of Music (previously the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music) offers broad coverage of a wide range of musical categories spanning many eras, including composers, librettists, singers, orchestras, important ballets and operas, and musical instruments and their history. The Oxford Dictionary of Music is the most up-to-date and accessible dictionaryof musical terms available and an essential point of reference for music students, teachers, lecturers, professional musicians, as well as music enthusiasts.
Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought
Author: Ruth SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521402654
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
In this wide-r anging and challenging book, Ruth Smith claims that the words to Handel's oratorios reflect the events and ideas of their time and have far greater meaning than has hitherto been realised. She explores eighteenth-century literature, music, aesthetics, politics and religion to reveal Handel's texts as conduits for the thought and sensibility of their time. The book thus enriches our understanding of Handel, his times, and the close relationship between music and its intellectual contexts.
Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
Author: Ellen T. HarrisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190861444
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of seventeenth-century England, and yet, despite its global renown, it remains cloaked in mystery. The date and place of its first performance cannot be fixed with precision, and the absolute accuracy of the surviving scores, which date from almost 100 years after the work was written, cannot be assumed. In this thirtieth-anniversary new edition of her book, Ellen Harris closely examines the many theories that have been proposed for the opera's origin and chronology, considering the opera both as political allegory and as a positive exemplar for young women. Her study explores the work's historical position in the Restoration theater, revealing its roots in seventeenth-century English theatrical and musical traditions, and carefully evaluates the surviving sources for the various readings they offer-of line designations in the text (who sings what), the vocal ranges of the soloists, the use of dance and chorus, and overall layout. It goes on to provide substantive analysis of Purcell's musical declamation and use of ground bass. In tracing the performance history of Dido and Aeneas, Harris presents an in-depth examination of the adaptations made by the Academy of Ancient Music at the end of the eighteenth century based on the surviving manuscripts. She then follows the growing interest in the creation of an “authentic” version in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through published editions and performance reviews, and considers the opera as an important factor in the so-called English Musical Renaissance. To a significant degree, the continuing fascination with Purcell's Dido and Aeneas rests on its apparent mutability, and Harris shows this has been inherent in the opera effectively from its origin.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell
Author: Rebecca HerissonePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317043278
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of current research into Purcell and the environment of Restoration music, with contributions from leading experts in the field. Seen from the perspective of modern, interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship, the companion allows the reader to develop a rounded view of the environment in which Purcell lived, the people with whom he worked, the social conditions that influenced his activities, and the ways in which the modern perception of him has been affected by reception of his music after his death. In this sense the contributions do not privilege the individual over the environment: rather, they use the modern reader's familiarity with Purcell's music as a gateway into the broader Restoration world. Topics include a reassessment of our understanding of Purcell's sources and the transmission of his music; new ways of approaching the study of his creative methods; performance practice; the multi-faceted theatre environment in which his work was focused in the last five years of his life; the importance of the political and social contexts of late seventeenth-century England; and the ways in which the performance history and reception of his music have influenced modern appreciation of the composer. The book will be essential reading for anyone studying the music and culture of the seventeenth century.
The Complete Works: Prefatory note. The text. Introduction. Chronology. Genealogical table. A sermon. The sullen lovers. The royal shepherdesse. The humorists
Author: Thomas ShadwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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The Duke of Gloucester's Birthday Ode
Author: Henry PurcellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Author: George Grove