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Book Synopsis Performing the Music of Henry Purcell by : Michael Burden
Download or read book Performing the Music of Henry Purcell written by Michael Burden and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, published to coincide with the tercentenary of Purcell's death, is the first to be devoted to the performance of his music. The contributors--all leading scholars and performers--deal with issues of performance practice relating both to playing the music and staging the operas.
Download or read book Henry Purcell written by Martin Adams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-09 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas by : Ellen T. Harris
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: Although widely regarded as the greatest operatic achievment of seventeenth-century England, Dido and Aeneas is surrounded by conflicting theories on it origin and chronology. In this thirtieth-anniversary edition of her groundbreaking book, Ellen T. Harris closely examines these theories and traces the performance history of the work, shedding light on the inherent mutability of this opera that continues to hold a fascination for audiences. -- Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Henry Purcell's Operas by : Henry Purcell
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.
Book Synopsis Henry Purcell by : Arthur Keith Holland
Download or read book Henry Purcell written by Arthur Keith Holland and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Henry Purcell & the Restoration Theatre by : Robert Etheridge Moore
Download or read book Henry Purcell & the Restoration Theatre written by Robert Etheridge Moore and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1974 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Henry Purcell by : Franklin B. Zimmerman
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.
Book Synopsis The Works Of Henry Purcell by : Henry Purcell
Download or read book The Works Of Henry Purcell written by Henry Purcell and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a musical score of Henry Purcell's famous opera Dido and Aeneas. It includes the full score, as well as detailed notes on the music and lyrics. This edition is an essential resource for musicians and scholars studying Purcell's work. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Henry Purcell and the London Stage by : C. A. Price
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.
Book Synopsis Purcell's Dido & Aeneas by : Henry Purcell
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:
Book Synopsis When I Am Laid in Earth (Air, "Dido's Lament" from the opera "Dido and Aeneas") by : Henry Purcell
Download or read book When I Am Laid in Earth (Air, "Dido's Lament" from the opera "Dido and Aeneas") written by Henry Purcell and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1994-08-08 with total page 20 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.
Book Synopsis Words and Music in Henry Purcell's First Semi-opera, Dioclesian by : Julia Muller
Download or read book Words and Music in Henry Purcell's First Semi-opera, Dioclesian written by Julia Muller and published by Lewiston N.Y., U.S. : E. Mellen Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although both the complete libretto (1690) and the full score (1691) of Henry Purcell's first semi-opera The Prophetess or, The History of Dioclesian have been preserved, the work has tended not to be fully discussed. In this study its relationship to the play of the same name by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger (1622) and in particular the Alterations and Additions After the Manner of an OPERA by Thomas Betterton, actor-manager of the Dorsert Garden Theatre, come under scrutiny. A line-by-line comparison is made of the opera with the only two published versions of the play extant, which are in the Beaumont and Fletcher First Folio (1647) and Second Folio (1679). Double numbering is used to aid easy reference to both notes and folios. The alterations are shown to be classifiable under such headings as late 17th-century theatre conventions, political expediency, providing scope for music and dance, and unification.
Download or read book Henry Purcell written by Maureen Duffy and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Henry Purcell set to music an entire age. Endlessly resourceful and dazzlingly innovatory, Purcell's music instantly evokes the energy and confidence of Restoration England. The age of Pepys and Dryden--of elegance, wit, and boundless creativity--gave birth to an audacious new theatre and, in Purcell's operas, to a new musical form. It was also an age of violence and suspicion. In the decade before Purcell's birth the people had executed their king. Treason was no longer unthinkable. Popish plots, coup attempts, invasion scares, international double-dealing... England seethed with conspiracies, real and imagined. Purcell, court musician to three reigns, was forced to tread a delicate path between the opposing factions. A working musician, Purcell was organist and harpsichordist as well as composer; tuner and repairer as well as performer. He also wrote music for every conceivable occasion: for the Church and for the theatre, for the chamber and for the great occasions of State. Purcell moved easily through the echelons of London society: from the quiet of the chapel royal to the raucous taverns. King and courtiers, actresses and innkeepers, tradesmen and artist... Purcell knew all the characters that comprised the constant flux of London life. Maureen Duffy, unsurpassed in her treatment of the modern capital city, now captures the sights, sounds and the flavour of a very different London. New documentary evidence, gleaned from a scrupulous investigation of original documents and sources, together with a novelist's instincts have enabled her to create the most vivid and illuminating portrait yet of England's greatest--and most elusive--composer." --Dust jacket.
Book Synopsis The Works of Henry Purcell by : Henry Purcell
Download or read book The Works of Henry Purcell written by Henry Purcell and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The works of Henry Purcell written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Henry Purcell, 1659-1695 by : Imogen Holst
Download or read book Henry Purcell, 1659-1695 written by Imogen Holst and published by London, Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry Purcell written by Peter Holman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first general survey of Purcell's music in a generation, is published to coincide with the tercentenary of his death. It is the first book to explore in detail the historical context of Purcell's music, dealing fully with the institutions he worked for, the origin anddevelopment of the various genres to which he contributed, and the sources of his music. In the process, a new picture of Purcell's creative personality emerges: a composer obsessed with formal counterpoint, extraordinarily well-versed in English music of the previous century, yet eager to embraceup-to-date features of the Italian style in the 1680s.
