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Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

Author : Ellen T. Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190271663
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas written by Ellen T. Harris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Dido and Aeneas

Author : Henry Purcell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Dido and Aeneas written by Henry Purcell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Handel as Orpheus

Author : Ellen T. Harris
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674015982
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Handel as Orpheus written by Ellen T. Harris and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handel wrote over 100 cantatas, compositions for voice and instruments decsribing the joy and pain of love. In the first comprehensive study of the cantatas, Harris investigates their place in Handel's life as well as their extraordinary beauty.

George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends

Author : Ellen T. Harris
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393245896
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends written by Ellen T. Harris and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel’s music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself—known to most as the composer of Messiah—is a bit of a mystery. Though he took meticulous care of his musical manuscripts and even provided for their preservation on his death, very little of an intimate nature survives. One document—Handel’s will—offers us a narrow window into his personal life. In it, he remembers not only family and close colleagues but also neighborhood friends. In search of the private man behind the public figure, Ellen T. Harris has spent years tracking down the letters, diaries, personal accounts, legal cases, and other documents connected to these bequests. The result is a tightly woven tapestry of London in the first half of the eighteenth century, one that interlaces vibrant descriptions of Handel’s music with stories of loyalty, cunning, and betrayal. With this wholly new approach, Harris has achieved something greater than biography. Layering the interconnecting stories of Handel’s friends like the subjects and countersubjects of a fugue, Harris introduces us to an ambitious, shrewd, generous, brilliant, and flawed man, hiding in full view behind his public persona.

Henry Purcell and the London Stage

Author : C. A. Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521238311
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Henry Purcell and the London Stage written by C. A. Price and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-06-14 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

When I am laid in earth

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Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780757994883
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book When I am laid in earth written by and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Purcell's masterpiece, Dido and Aeneas, is considered the high point of English opera. When I Am Laid in Earth is a poignant, lovely aria sung by the lovelorn, dying Queen Dido as her hero Aeneas sails away. Beautifully arranged by Sylvia Rabinof for two pianos, eight hands, the delicate simplicity sings forth with subtle strength. A Federation Festivals 2016-2020 selection. A Federation Festivals 2020-2024 selection.

Purcell's Dido & Aeneas

Author : Henry Purcell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781875862214
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Purcell's Dido & Aeneas written by Henry Purcell and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199796033
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by Richard Taruskin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-14 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks-the themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to a significant period in the history of Western music. Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries , the second volume Richard Taruskin's monumental history, illuminates the explosion of musical creativity that occurred in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Examining a wealth of topics, Taruskin looks at the elegant masques and consort music of Jacobean England, the Italian concerto style of Corelli and Vivaldi, and the progression from Baroque to Rococo to romantic style. Perhaps most important, he offers a fascinating account of the giants of this period: Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. Laced with brilliant observations, memorable musical analysis, and a panoramic sense of the interactions between history, culture, politics, art, literature, religion, and music, this book will be essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand this rich and diverse period.

Fifteen Songs and Arias

Author : Henry Purcell
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457484773
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Fifteen Songs and Arias written by Henry Purcell and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of vocal solos composed by Henry Purcell.

Henry Purcell

Author : Franklin B. Zimmerman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512809098
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Henry Purcell written by Franklin B. Zimmerman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Henry Purcell's Operas

Author : Henry Purcell
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198164456
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book Henry Purcell's Operas written by Henry Purcell and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While understanding the concept of all-sung opera, seventeenth-century English impresarios and their audiences also understood opera to mean spoken plays with a large amount of added music. The works have been given a variety of descriptive titles including `semi-operas', `ambigues', `multi-media spectaculars', and, most appropriately, `dramatick operas'. As well as four big dramatick operas, Henry Purcell also wrote a small all-sung masque, Dido and Aeneas, which is one of the few works of the century which fulfils a modern ideal of `opera'. The music of Purcell's operas has long been studied in detail, but it is only in recent years--and not by all scholars--that the operas have been taken seriously as dramatic entities. Consideration of the pieces have been hampered by the lack of availability of the texts of the operas, for while the music has long been edited and played, the sections of spoken dialogue have been almost entirely ignored. This volume, the first complete collection of the texts, redresses the balance. It presents to the reader the complete entertainment as prepared by the author on each occasion. Included are editions of both the 1689 libretto of Dido and Aeneas and its later incarnation as a series of masques in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, together with the playtext, the original published texts of Dioclesian, King Arthur, and The Fairy-Queen, and a transcription of the manuscript of The Indian Queen. An appendix to the volumeshows the song texts as actually set by Purcell.

Aeneid

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486113973
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Aeneid written by Virgil and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.

A Critical Old-spelling Edition of Nahum Tate's Brutus of Alba

Author : Nahum Tate
Publisher : Dissertations-G
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Critical Old-spelling Edition of Nahum Tate's Brutus of Alba written by Nahum Tate and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1987 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell

Author : Rebecca Herissone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317043278
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell written by Rebecca Herissone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Theodosius: Or, The Force Of Love

Author : Nathaniel Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Theodosius: Or, The Force Of Love written by Nathaniel Lee and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Purcell

Author : Peter Holman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032918549
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Purcell written by Peter Holman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this volume are a representative selection of the best scholarly writing on Purcell's music. The collection reflects the increase in new research stimulated by Purcell's 300th anniversary in 1995 and the introduction explores the history of Purcell scholarship, reviews its present state, comments on the significance of the articles

Henry Purcell

Author : Robert King
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Henry Purcell written by Robert King and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Purcell the man very little is known, and his personality has to be reconstructed through the age in which he lived, the circumstances of his professional life, the men and women who knew him, and above all through his music. Robert King weaves a masterly narrative, bringing together politics (always in the forefront of Purcell's fortunes), religion, society and the theater, relating all this to the state of music at the time - instruments, techniques, foreign influences, and formal innovations.