Henry Purcell and the London Stage

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Beschreibung

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. The plays: 1. Music in the Late Seventeenth-Century English Theatre; 2. The Serious Dramas; 3. The Tragic Extravaganzas; 4. The Comedies; Part II. The Operas: 5. Dido and Aeneas; 6. Dioclesian; 7. King Arthur; 8. The Fairy-Queen.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2008
Genre:	Importe , Musik
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Allg. Handbücher & Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780521105156
ISBN-10:	0521105153
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Price, C. A. Price, Curtis Alexander
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 24 mm
Von/Mit:	C. A. Price (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	29.11.2008
Gewicht:	0,653 kg