Author : H. Sutherland Edwards
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666395061
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
Book Synopsis The Lyrical Drama, Vol. 1 by : H. Sutherland Edwards
Download or read book The Lyrical Drama, Vol. 1 written by H. Sutherland Edwards and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Lyrical Drama, Vol. 1: Essays on Subjects, Composers,& Executants of Modern Opera The first Opera on a profane or rather on a secular subject-for it is surely a mistake to regard everything not sacred as necessarily profane - was the descent of Orpheus into the infernal regions - drawn thither, as is well known, by his wife Eurydice. The subject of Orpheus, alike lyrical and dramatic, has been a favourite one with composers for the last four cen turies, from Poliziano, who produced his Orfeo at Rome in 1480, up to Gluck, nearly three centuries later, and from Gluck down to Offenbach, who de lights a good many persons in the present day. The Orfeo which was brought out just four centuries ago, at Rome, bore no more resemblance in a musical point of view to a modern Opera than did the sacred musical plays before spoken of and up to the year 1600 we meet with no musical work which bears more. 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.