Cargando…
Music in the London theatre from Purcell to Handel /
This book discusses literary and dramatic aspects of musical works for voices and instruments performed in English theatres (c.1650 and 1750).
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Purcell's "scurvy" poets / Roger Savage
- Opera as literature and the triumph of music / Martin Adams
- The British enchanters and George Granville's theory of opera / Wolfgang Hirschmann
- Lost chances: obstacles to English opera for Purcell and Handel / Jeffrey Barnouw
- Alexander's feast, or The power of perseverance: Dryden's plan for English opera and its near-fulfilment in a Handel ode / Andrew Pinnock and Bruce Wood
- Ombra mai fu: shades of Greece and Rome in the librettos for Handel's London operas / Peter Brown
- Handel and the uses of antiquity / Reinhard Strohm
- From Metastasio's Alessandro to Handel's Poro: a change of dramatic emphasis / Graham Cummings
- Deidamia as an "Heroi-comi-pastoral" opera / Sarah McCleave
- Seventeenth-century literary classics as eighteenth-century libretto sources: Congreve, Dryden and Milton in the 1730s and 1740s / Matthew Gardner
- "In this ballance seek a character": the role of "il moderato" in L'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato / Ruth Smith
- "Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures": glancing and gazing spectatorship in Handel's L'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato / Matthew Badham
- Accompanied recitative and characterisation in Handel's oratorios / Liam Gorry
- Handel, Charles Jennens and the advent of scriptural oratorio / John H. Roberts.