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Author : A. Joseph Armstrong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Operatic Performances in England Before Handel written by A. Joseph Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Joseph Armstrong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Operatic Performances in England Before Handel written by A. Joseph Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Joseph Armstrong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330913369
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Operatic Performances in England Before Handel (Classic Reprint) written by A. Joseph Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Operatic Performances in England Before Handel No field in English Literature has received less attention than that of the heroic drama, and inseparably connected with this is the so-called literary opera, for the composers who wrote the one, also wrote the other. I have chronicled the rise and progress of the English opera from 1656, the date of its initial performance, until the introduction in 1710 of Italian librettos by Handel and his co-workers. Little or nothing has been written on the consecutive history of the opera between those two dates. The works themselves are not easily available and for that reason I have given epitomes of the operas and I have collected many facts concerning this excrescence of literature. I have read every extant opera, many of which are to be found only in the library of the British Museum. My indebtedness to the librarians of Havard and Columbia Colleges, of the University of Pennsylvania, of the Congressional Library and of the British Museum, I gratefully acknowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : A. Joseph Armstrong
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781296774295
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Operatic Performances in England Before Handel written by A. Joseph Armstrong and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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.
Author : A Joseph Armstrong
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781298887559
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Operatic Performances in England Before Handel written by A Joseph Armstrong and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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.
Author : Armstrong A Joseph 1873-1954
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781313434591
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Operatic Performances in England Before Handel written by Armstrong A Joseph 1873-1954 and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Thomas McGeary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139619470
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain written by Thomas McGeary and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain examines the involvement of Italian opera in British partisan politics in the first half of the eighteenth century, which saw Sir Robert Walpole's rise to power and George Frideric Handel's greatest period of opera production. McGeary argues that the conventional way of applying Italian opera to contemporary political events and persons by means of allegory and allusion in individual operas is mistaken; nor did partisan politics intrude into the management of the Royal Academy of Music and the Opera of the Nobility. This book shows instead how Senesino, Faustina, Cuzzoni and events at the Haymarket Theatre were used in political allegories in satirical essays directed against the Walpole ministry. Since most operas were based on ancient historical events, the librettos - like traditional histories - could be sources of examples of vice, virtue, and political precepts and wisdom that could be applied to contemporary politics.
Author : A Joseph Armstrong
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
ISBN 13 : 9781297381331
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Operatic Performances in England Before Handel - Scholar's Choice Edition written by A Joseph Armstrong and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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.
Author : William Congreve
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107675766
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Semele written by William Congreve and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1925, the text for this edition of Semele was compiled from the 1710 edition of Congreve's works and the altered version adopted by Handel and published in 1762. The work was performed in this form at the New Theatre, Cambridge in February 1925. Lines omitted by the composer are printed in smaller type, and his interpolations are set within square brackets. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the works of Congreve and Handel.
Author : Sarah Yuill McCleave
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580464203
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Dance in Handel's London Operas written by Sarah Yuill McCleave and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the pivotal role of dance in the Italian operas of Handel, perhaps the greatest opera composer between Monteverdi and Mozart. George Frideric Handel set himself apart from his contemporaries by employing choreographed instrumental music to complement and reinforce the emotional impact of his operas. Of his fifty-three operas, no fewer than fourteen -- including ten written for the London stage -- feature dances. Dance in Handel's London Operas explores the relationship between music, drama, and dance in these London works, dispelling the notion that dance was a largely peripheral element in Italian-language operas prior to those of Gluck. Taking a chronological approach, Sarah McCleave examines operas written throughout various periods in Handel's life, beginning with his early London operas, including his time at the Royal Music Academy and the "Sallé" operas of the 1730s, and concluding with his unstaged dramatic opera Alceste (1750). In considering the various influences on Handel (particularly the London stage), McCleave blends analysis of information from eighteenth-century treatises with that found in more modern studies, offering an informed and imaginative understanding of the role dance played in the work of this major figure --one who remained responsive throughout his career to the vital and innovative theatrical environment in which he worked. Sarah McCleave is a lecturer at The School of Creative Arts at Queen's University Belfast.
Author : Jane Glover
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681779471
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Handel in London written by Jane Glover and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1712, a young German composer followed his princely master to London and would remain there for the rest of his life. That master would become King George II and the composer was George Freidrich Handel. Handel, then still only twenty-seven and largely self-taught, would be at the heart of music activity in London for the next four decades, composing masterpiece after masterpiece, whether the glorious coronation anthem, Zadok the Priest, operas such as Rinaldo and Alcina or the great oratorios, culminating, of course, in Messiah. Here, Jane Glover, who has conducted Handel’s work in opera houses and concert halls throughout the world, draws on her profound understanding of music and musicians to tell Handel’s story. It is a story of music-making and musicianship, but also of courts and cabals of theatrical rivalries and of eighteenth-century society. It is also, of course the story of some of the most remarkable music ever written, music that has been played and sung, and loved, in this country—and throughout the world—for three hundred years.
Author : Nathan Link
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197651364
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book A Poetics of Handel's Operas written by Nathan Link and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What should we consider when thinking about the relationship between an onstage performance and the story the performance tells? A Poetics of Handel's Operas explores this question by analyzing the narratives of Handel's operas in relation to the rich representational fabric of performance used to convey them. Nathan Link notes that in most storytelling genres, the audience can naturally discern between a story and the way that story is represented: with film, for example, the viewer would recognize that a character hears neither her own voiceover nor the ambient music that accompanies it, whereas in discussions of opera, some audiences may be distracted by the seemingly artificial nature of such conventions as characters singing their dialogue. Link proposes that when engaging with opera, distinguishing between the performance we see and hear on the stage and the story represented offers a meaningful approach to engaging with and interpreting the work. Handel's operas are today the most-performed works in the Baroque opera seria tradition. This genre, with its intricate dramaturgy and esoteric conventions, stands to gain much from an investigation into the relationships between the onstage performance and the story to which that performance directs us. In his analysis, Link offers theoretical studies on opera and narratological theories of literature, drama, and film, providing rich engagement with Handel's work and what it conveys about the relationship between text, story, and performance.
Author : David Vickers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351564242
Total Pages : 703 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Handel written by David Vickers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology represents scholarly literature devoted to Handel over the last few decades, and contains different kinds of studies of the composer's biography, operatic career, singers, librettists, and his relationship with the music of other composers. Case studies range from recent research that transforms our knowledge of large-scale English works to an interdisciplinary exploration of an individual opera aria. Designed to bring easy and convenient access to students, performers and music lovers, the wide-ranging articles are selected by David Vickers (co-editor of the recent Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia) from diverse sources - not only familiar important journals, but also specialist yearbooks, festschrifts, not easily accessible newsletters, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues. Many of these represent an up-to-date understanding of modern Handel studies, deal with fascinating biographical issues (such as the composer's art collection, his chronic health problems, and the nature of popular anecdotal evidence), and fill gaps in the mainstream Handelian literature.
Author : Donald Burrows
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199737363
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Handel written by Donald Burrows and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handel was a defining figure of the late Baroque era, perhaps best known for bringing the oratorio form to an English-speaking audience. This insightful study brings to life the glory of his artistry, his elusive personality and the flavour of his time.
Author : Colin Timms
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107154642
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel written by Colin Timms and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses literary and dramatic aspects of musical works for voices and instruments performed in English theatres (c.1650 and 1750).
Author : David Hunter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783270616
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Lives of George Frideric Handel written by David Hunter and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have Handel's 'lives' in biographies and histories moulded our understanding of the musician, the man and the icon?
Author : Donald Burrows
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825216
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Handel written by Donald Burrows and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handel is recognised as one of the principal creative figures in Baroque music. In this Companion acknowledged experts on Handel make their expertise accessible to the interested general reader and music lover. All the genres in which Handel composed are considered including oratorio, chamber cantata, opera, and church music, as well as works for the keyboard and orchestra. The wide-ranging, specially-commissioned essays cover topics from Handel's composing methods to his treatment of the Italian language and matters of performance practice. The background to Handel's musical career is a major theme of the volume. The opening chapters deal with his musical education in Germany and the circumstances in Italy during his time there. Most of Handel's career was based in London and important topics here include contemporary concert life and theatre management, the British and Italian musicians among whom he worked, and the librettists for the English oratorios.
