Author: Henry CareyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
The Songs Duett and Dialogue in the Contrivances, etc
Catalogue of Printed Music Published Between 1487 and 1800 Now in the British Museum: A-K.- v. 2. L-Z and First supplement
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
A Short-Title Catalogue of Music Printed Before 1825 in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Author: Fitzwilliam MuseumPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521415354
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The collection of pre-1825 printed music in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, here catalogued for the first time.
Catalogue of Printed Music Published Between 1487 and 1800 Now in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Unprepared To Die
Author: Paul SladePublisher: Soundcheck Books
ISBN: 099294807X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
The Gory Stories Behind The Murder Ballads Cheerfully vulgar, revelling in gore, and always with an eye on the main chance, murder ballads are tabloid newspapers set to music, carrying word of the latest ‘orrible murders to an insatiable public. Victims are bludgeoned, stabbed or shot in every verse and killers often hanged, but the songs themselves never die. Instead, they mutate – morphing to suit local place names as they criss cross the Atlantic and continue to fascinate each generation’s biggest musical stars. Paul Slade traces this fascinating genre’s history through eight of its greatest songs. Stagger Lee’s “biographers” alone include Duke Ellington, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Dr John, The Clash and Nick Cave. No two tell his story in quite the same way. Covering eight classic murder ballads, including “Knoxville Girl”, “Tom Dooley” and “Frankie & Johnny”, Slade investigates the real-life murder which inspired each song and traces its musical development down the decades. Billy Bragg, The Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey, Laura Cantrell, Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family and a host of other leading musicians add their own insights.
Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Music in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The British Union-catalogue of Early Music Before the Year 1801
Author: Edith Betty SchnapperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Library to 1980
Author: British Library. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Musical Miscellany
Author: The Country Wife
Author: William WycherleyPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408179911
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
'He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.' This bawdy, hilarious, subversive and wickedly satirical drama pokes fun at the humourless, the jealous, and the adulterous alike. It features a country wife, Margery, whose husband believes she is too naïve to cuckold him; and an anti-hero, Horner, who pretends to be impotent in order to have unrestrained access to the women keen on 'the sport'. A number of licentious and hypocritical women request Horner's services – the country wife among them. The Country Wife has provoked powerfully mixed reactions over the years. The seventeenth century libertine king Charles II saw it twice, and is said to have joined the 'dance of the cuckolds' at the end of one performance; the eighteenth century actor-playwright David Garrick declared it 'the most licentious play in the English language'; the Victorian Macaulay compared it to a skunk, because it was 'too filthy to handle and too noisome even to approach'. Twentieth century productions heralded it a Restoration masterpiece. Sexually frank, and as ready to criticise marriage as infidelity, the virtuosity, linguistic energy, brilliant wit, naughtiness and complexity of this ribald play have made it a staple of the modern stage. This student edition contains a lengthy, entirely new introduction, by leading scholar, Tiffany Stern, with a background on the author, structure, characters, genre, themes, original staging and performance history, as well as an updated bibliography and a fully annotated version of the playtext.