Henry Purcell And The London Stage

Author : C. A. Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1984-06-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521238315

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Henry Purcell and the London Stage by C. A. Price Pdf

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.

Author : Curtis A. Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:313528943

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Henry Purcell and the London Stage by Curtis A. Price Pdf

Author : Curtis Alexander Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : English drama
ISBN : OCLC:1345562575

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Henry Purcell and the London Stage by Curtis Alexander Price Pdf

Author : Colin Timms,Bruce Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107154643

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Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel by Colin Timms,Bruce Wood Pdf

This book discusses literary and dramatic aspects of musical works for voices and instruments performed in English theatres (c.1650 and 1750).

Author : Kathryn Lowerre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351557627

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Music and Musicians on the London Stage, 1695-1705 by Kathryn Lowerre Pdf

From 1695 to 1705, rival London theater companies based at Drury Lane and Lincoln's Inn Fields each mounted more than a hundred new productions while reviving stock plays by authors such as Shakespeare and Dryden. All included music. Kathryn Lowerre charts the interactions of the two companies from a musical perspective, emphasizing each company's new productions and their respective musical assets, including performers, composers, and musical materials. Lowerre also provides rich analysis of the relationship of music to genres including comedy, dramatick opera, and musical tragedy, and explores the migration of music from theater to theater, performer to performer, and from stage to street and back again. As Lowerre persuasively demonstrates, during this period, all theater was musical theater.

Author : Martin Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995-03-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 052143159X

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Henry Purcell by Martin Adams Pdf

Using a mix of broad stylistic observation and detailed analysis, Adams distinguishes between late-seventeenth-century English style in general and Purcell's style in particular, and chronicles the changes in the composer's approach to the main genres in which he worked, especially the newly emerging ode and English opera. As a result, Adams reveals that although Purcell went through a marked stylistic development, encompassing an unusually wide range of surface changes, special elements of his style remained constant.

Author : Kathryn Lowerre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351557610

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"Music and Musicians on the London Stage, 1695?705 " by Kathryn Lowerre Pdf

From 1695 to 1705, rival London theater companies based at Drury Lane and Lincoln's Inn Fields each mounted more than a hundred new productions while reviving stock plays by authors such as Shakespeare and Dryden. All included music. Kathryn Lowerre charts the interactions of the two companies from a musical perspective, emphasizing each company's new productions and their respective musical assets, including performers, composers, and musical materials. Lowerre also provides rich analysis of the relationship of music to genres including comedy, dramatick opera, and musical tragedy, and explores the migration of music from theater to theater, performer to performer, and from stage to street and back again. As Lowerre persuasively demonstrates, during this period, all theater was musical theater.

Author : Rebecca Herissone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317043270

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell by Rebecca Herissone Pdf

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.

Author : Ellen T. Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190861445

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Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas by Ellen T. Harris Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Etheridge Moore
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042506696

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Henry Purcell & the Restoration Theatre by Robert Etheridge Moore Pdf

A study of Purcell's operas; works of great musical stature, which, with the exception of Dido and Aeneas, are seldom studied or staged by contemporary opera companies.

Author : Franklin B. Zimmerman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781512809091

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Henry Purcell by Franklin B. Zimmerman Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : James Cook,Alexander Kolassa,Adam Whittaker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351975513

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Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen by James Cook,Alexander Kolassa,Adam Whittaker Pdf

Recomposing the Past is a book concerned with the complex but important ways in which we engage with the past in modern times. Contributors examine how media on stage and screen uses music, and in particular early music, to evoke and recompose a distant past. Culture, popular and otherwise, is awash with a stylise - sometimes contradictory - musical history. And yet for all its complexities, these representations of the past through music are integral to how our contemporary and collective imaginations understand history. More importantly, they offer a valuable insight into how we understand our musical present. Such representative strategies, the book argues, cross generic boundaries, and as such it brings together a range of multimedia discussion on the subjects of film (Lord of the Rings, Dangerous Liasions), television (Game of Thrones, The Borgias), videogame (Dragon Warrior, Gauntlet), and opera (Written on Skin, Taverner, English ‘dramatick opera’). This collection constitutes a significant, and interdisciplinary, contribution to a growing literature which is unpacking our ongoing creative dialogue with the past. Divided into three complementary sections, grouped not by genre or media but by theme, it considers: ‘Authenticity, Appropriateness, and Recomposing the Past’, ‘Music, Space, and Place: Geography as History’, and ‘Presentness and the Past: Dialogues between Old and New’. Like the musical collage that is our shared multimedia historical soundscape, it is hoped that this collection is, in its eclecticism, more than the sum of its parts.

Author : John Eccles
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781987208566

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Incidental Music, Part 3 by John Eccles Pdf

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).

Author : Alan Hager
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313052590

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The Age of Milton by Alan Hager Pdf

The 17th century was a time of significant cultural and political change. The era saw the rise of exploration and travel, the growth of the scientific method, and the spread of challenges to conventional religion. Many of these developments occurred in England and North America, and literature of the period reflects the intellectual and emotional fervor of the age. This reference chronicles the lives and works of more than 75 British and American writers of the 17th century. Included are entries on such major canonical authors as Donne, Milton, and Jonson. The volume also covers the writings of such leading thinkers as Hobbes and Locke, along with the works of leading European figures like Galileo and Descartes. Also profiled are numerous significant women writers, including Mary Astell, Aphra Behn, and Anne Killigrew. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a survey of the writer's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume additionally includes entries on several artists who significantly influenced British and American literary culture.

Author : Kathryn Lowerre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351886512

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The Lively Arts of the London Stage, 1675–1725 by Kathryn Lowerre Pdf

Unlike collections of essays which focus on a single century or whose authors are drawn from a single discipline, this collection reflects the myriad performance options available to London audiences, offering readers a composite portrait of the music, drama, and dance productions that characterized this rich period. Just as the performing arts were deeply interrelated, the essays presented here, by scholars from a range of fields, engage in dialogue with others in the volume. The opening section examines a famous series of 1701 performances based on the competition between composers to set William Congreve's masque The Judgment of Paris to music. The essays in the central section (the 'mainpiece') showcase performers and productions on the London stage from a variety of perspectives, including English 'tastes' in art and music, the use of dance, the depiction of madness and masculinity in both spoken and musical performances, and genres and modes in the context of contemporary criticism and theatrical practice. A brief afterpiece looks at comic pieces in relation to satire, parody and homage. By bringing together work by scholars of music, dance, and drama, this cross-disciplinary collection illuminates the interconnecting strands that shaped a vibrant theatrical world.