Author: Henry PurcellPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Sound a Parly Ye Fair
Author: Henry PurcellKing Arthur
Author: Henry PurcellPublisher:
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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Orpheus Britannicus. A Collection of Choice Songs for One, Two, and Three Voices with a Through Bass for the Harpsicord
Author: Henry PurcellMr Henr Purcell's Favourite Songs Out of His Most Celebrated Orpheus Brittanicus and the Rest of His Works the Whole Fairly Engraven and Carefully Corrected
Author: Henry PurcellPublisher:
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Category : Incidental music
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publications of the Musical Antiquarian Society
Author: Musical Antiquarian SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI
Author: John DrydenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520915127
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
In the last decade of Dryden's life, he brought four new works before the theatre-going public: a dramatic opera, a tragedy, a tragicomedy, and a number of appendages to an old comedy by John Fletcher, which was revived partly so that Dryden might have the author's third-night profits. He died that night, but his family received the money. The dramatic opera, King Arthur, benefited from a fine score by Henry Purcell and has remained in the operatic repertoire to this day. Cleomenes, the tragedy, was banned until Dryden was able to convince Queen Mary that it did not reflect any seditious sympathy with the exiled James II, after which it was successful. The fate of Love Triumphant, the tragicomedy, was different; possibly because of a growing swell of moral reform, the play was universally damned, even though its themes of incest and miscellaneous fornication had never brought rejection to Dryden in the past. The Secular Masque, Dryden's principal contribution to The Pilgrim by Fletcher, had undistinguished music, but its lively verse and broad review of the previous century kept the piece on the stage for the next fifty years, and in anthologies up to the present.
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Author: John Dryden
Author: John Dryden