Author: Henry PurcellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Works of Henry Purcell: Dramatic music, part 2
Author: Henry PurcellThe Works of Henry Purcell: Sacred music, part 2
Author: Henry PurcellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Instrumental music
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Works of Henry Purcell: Birthday odes for Queen Mary, part 2
Author: Henry PurcellIncidental Music, Part 3
Author: John EcclesPublisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 1987208560
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
John Eccles’s active theatrical career spanned a period of about sixteen years, though he continued to compose occasionally for the theater after his semi-retirement in 1707. During his career he wrote incidental music for more than seventy plays, writing songs that fit perfectly within their dramatic contexts and that offered carefully tailored vehicles for his singers’ talents while remaining highly accessible in tone. This edition includes music composed by Eccles for plays beginning with the letters R–W, along with secular songs and catches by Eccles that were not associated with plays. These plays were fundamentally collaborative ventures, and multiple composers often supplied the music; thus, this edition includes all the known songs and instrumental items for each play. Plot summaries of the plays are given along with relevant dialogue cues, and the songs are given in the order in which they appear in the drama (when known).
The Dramatic Music of Henry Purcell: Introduction on the state of the arts in Restoration England ; Theodosius ; The dramatic works between Theodosius and Dido ; Dido and Aeneas ; King Arthur ; The fairy queen ; The Indian queen ; The tempest ; Conclusions
Author: Gerhart ReichlinPublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell
Author: Rebecca HerissonePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131704326X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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.
Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools
Author: Amanda Eubanks WinklerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108859968
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools is the first book to systematically analyze the role that the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation. Although the material record is riddled with gaps, Amanda Eubanks Winkler sheds light on the subject through an innovative methodology that combines rigorous archival research with phenomenological and performance studies approaches. She organizes her study around a series of performance-based questions that demonstrate how the schoolroom intersected with the church, the court, the domicile, the concert room, and the professional theater, which allows her to provide fresh perspectives on well-known canonical operas performed by children, as well as lesser-known works. Eubanks Winkler also interrogates the notion that performance is ephemeral, as she considers how scores and playtexts serve as a conduit between past and present, and demonstrates the ways in which pedagogical performance is passed down through embodied praxis.
Incidental Music, Part 2
Author: John EcclesPublisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 1987206266
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
John Eccles’s active theatrical career spanned a period of about sixteen years, though he continued to compose occasionally for the theater after his semi-retirement in 1707. During his career he wrote incidental music for more than seventy plays, writing songs that fit perfectly within their dramatic contexts and that offered carefully tailored vehicles for his singers’ talents while remaining highly accessible in tone. This edition includes music composed by Eccles for plays beginning with the letters H–P. These plays were fundamentally collaborative ventures, and multiple composers often supplied the music; thus, this edition includes all the known songs and instrumental items for each play. Plot summaries of the plays are given along with relevant dialogue cues, and the songs are given in the order in which they appear in the drama (when known).
Henry Purcell and the London Stage
Author: C. A. PricePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521238311
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
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.
The Sonatas of Henry Purcell
Author: Alon SchabPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580469205
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This pathbreaking study reveals Purcell's extensive use of symmetry and reversal in his much-loved trio sonatas, and shows how these hidden structural processes make his music multilayered and appealing.