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Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel
Colin Timms
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Description for Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel
hardcover. This book discusses literary and dramatic aspects of musical works for voices and instruments performed in English theatres (c.1650 and 1750). Editor(s): Timms, Colin; Wood, Bruce. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 b/w illus. 16 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JD; 3JF; AVGC3; AVGC9; AVGM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 174. .
This book is concerned with a hundred years of musical drama in England. It charts the development of the genre from the theatre works of Henry Purcell (and his contemporaries) to the dramatic oratorios of George Frideric Handel (and his). En route it investigates the objections to all-sung drama in English that were articulated in the decades around 1700, various proposed solutions, the importation of Italian opera, and the creation of the dramatic oratorio - English drama, all-sung but not staged. Most of the constituent essays take an in-depth look at a particular aspect of the process, while others draw ... Read more
This book is concerned with a hundred years of musical drama in England. It charts the development of the genre from the theatre works of Henry Purcell (and his contemporaries) to the dramatic oratorios of George Frideric Handel (and his). En route it investigates the objections to all-sung drama in English that were articulated in the decades around 1700, various proposed solutions, the importation of Italian opera, and the creation of the dramatic oratorio - English drama, all-sung but not staged. Most of the constituent essays take an in-depth look at a particular aspect of the process, while others draw ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107154643
SKU
V9781107154643
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Ref
99-14
About Colin Timms
Colin Timms is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham, where he held the Peyton and Barber chair from 1992 to 2012. He is also a trustee of the Gerald Coke Handel Foundation and of the Handel Institute, whose Newsletter he edits, and honorary president of the Forum Agostino Steffani. He has published extensively on Steffani, and his ... Read more
Reviews for Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel
'The volume is well edited and clearly and attractively laid out, with footnotes, some of them quite extensive, conveniently presented on the page to which they refer. There are a few musical examples; a bibliography and an index are provided. This excellent collection of papers will be of value to anyone interested in English baroque music and its literary and ... Read more