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.
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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.
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Purcell's admirers have long lamented his ill luck. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
new opera, frost scene, tragic extravaganzas, countertenor air, jects wait, major stage works, ish wool, lament bass, declamatory air, bass omitted, shun the cure, strings omitted, curtain tune, minor duet, soprano air, act tunes, final masque, final entertainment, dreadful engines, opening recitative, speaking cast, true opera, descending tetrachord, minor air, musical episodes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
King Arthur, The Plays, The Fairy-Queen, Don Quixote, The Indian Queen, Orpheus Britannicus, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Henry Purcell, The Operas, Restoration Theatre, Royal Academy, Purcell Society Edition, The Serious Dramas, British Library Add, The Indian Emperour, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Guildhall Library, The Comedies, The Tempest, The Works of John Dryden, Dorset Garden, The Double-Dealer, Fool's Preferment, The Rehearsal Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
Purcell's admirers have long lamented his ill luck. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
new opera, frost scene, tragic extravaganzas, countertenor air, jects wait, major stage works, ish wool, lament bass, declamatory air, bass omitted, shun the cure, strings omitted, curtain tune, minor duet, soprano air, act tunes, final masque, final entertainment, dreadful engines, opening recitative, speaking cast, true opera, descending tetrachord, minor air, musical episodes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
King Arthur, The Plays, The Fairy-Queen, Don Quixote, The Indian Queen, Orpheus Britannicus, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Henry Purcell, The Operas, Restoration Theatre, Royal Academy, Purcell Society Edition, The Serious Dramas, British Library Add, The Indian Emperour, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Guildhall Library, The Comedies, The Tempest, The Works of John Dryden, Dorset Garden, The Double-Dealer, Fool's Preferment, The Rehearsal Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Purcell Studies (Cambridge Composer Studies) by Curtis Price on 6 pages
- O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage by Amanda Eubanks Winkler on 5 pages
- Enchanted Ground: Reimagining John Dryden (UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series) by Jayne Lewis on page 288, page 315, and page 316
- Gender, Theatre, and the Origins of Criticism: From Dryden to Manley by Marcie Frank in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Drama and Politics in the English Civil War by Susan Wiseman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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