Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Timms, Colin

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Produktbeschreibung

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 attention to dramatic qualities in non-dramatic works that also were performed in the theatre. The journey from Purcell to Handel illustrates the vigour and vitality of English theatrical and musical traditions, and Handel's dramatic oratorios and other settings of English words answer questions posed before he was born.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108124973
• Artikelnr.: 53343303

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; Music examples; Authors and editors; Introduction; Part
I. From Purcell to Handel: 1. Purcell's 'scurvy' poets Roger Savage; 2.
Opera as literature and the triumph of music Martin Adams; 3. The British
Enchanters and George Granville's theory of opera Wolfgang Hirschmann; 4.
Lost chances: obstacles to English opera for Purcell and Handel Jeffrey
Barnouw; 5. Alexander's Feast, or The Power of Perseverance: Dryden's plan
for English opera and its near-fulfilment in a Handel ode Andrew Pinnock
and Bruce Wood; Part II. Handel and Italian Opera: 6. Ombra mai fu: shades
of Greece and Rome in the librettos for Handel's London operas Peter Brown;
7. Handel and the uses of antiquity Reinhard Strohm; 8. From Metastasio's
Alessandro to Handel's Poro: a change of dramatic emphasis Graham Cummings;
9. Deidamia as an 'heroi-comi-pastoral' opera Sarah McCleave; Part III.
Handel and English Works in the Theatre: 10. Seventeenth-century literary
classics as eighteenth-century libretto sources: Congreve, Dryden and
Milton in the 1730s and '40s Matthew Gardner; 11. 'In this ballance seek a
character': the role of 'Il Moderato' in L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il
Moderato Ruth Smith; 12. 'Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures':
glancing and gazing spectatorship in Handel's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il
Moderato Matthew Badham; 13. Accompanied recitative and characterisation in
Handel's oratorios Liam Gorry; 14. Handel, Charles Jennens and the advent
of scriptural oratorio John H. Roberts; Bibliography; Index.