Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel

ISBN-13: 9781316608289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 268 str.

Colin Timms; Bruce Wood

Opis

This book discusses literary and dramatic aspects of musical works for voices and instruments performed in English theatres (c.1650 and 1750).

Recenzje

'This volume of traditional musicology is well wrought, meets the editors' goal of redefining the idea of 'theatre music', and provides, both deliberately and inadvertently, plenty of food for thought.' David Hunter, Notes

Spis treści

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.