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| Author | : David R. B. Kimbell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Opera |
| ISBN | : 9781316531884 |
David Kimbell sets Handel's operas in their biographical and cultural contexts, exploring drama, music and styles of performance.
| Author | : David Kimbell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 2016-02-11 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1316531163 |
Of all the great composers of the eighteenth century, Handel was the supreme cosmopolitan, an early and extraordinarily successful example of a freelance composer. For thirty years the opera-house was the principal focus of his creative work and he composed more than forty operas over this period. In this book, David Kimbell sets Handel's operas in their biographical and cultural contexts. He explores the circumstances in which they were composed and performed, the librettos that were prepared for Handel, and what they tell us about his and his audience's values and the music he composed for them. Remarkably no Handel operas were staged for a period of 170 years between 1754 and the 1920s. The final chapter in this book reveals the differences and similarities between how Handel's operas were performed in his time and ours.
| Author | : David Kimbell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Opera |
| ISBN | : 9780511998454 |
Of all the great composers of the eighteenth century, Handel was the supreme cosmopolitan, an early and extraordinarily successful example of a freelance composer. For thirty years the opera-house was the principal focus of his creative work and he composed more than forty operas over this period. In this book, David Kimbell sets Handel's operas in their biographical and cultural contexts. He explores the circumstances in which they were composed and performed, the librettos that were prepared for Handel, and what they tell us about his and his audience's values and the music he composed for them. Remarkably no Handel operas were staged for a period of 170 years between 1754 and the 1920s. The final chapter in this book reveals the differences and similarities between how Handel's operas were performed in his time and ours.
| Author | : David R. B. Kimbell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Opera |
| ISBN | : 9781316532362 |
David Kimbell sets Handel's operas in their biographical and cultural contexts, exploring drama, music and styles of performance.
| Author | : Donald Burrows |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 1268 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780198166542 |
James Harris (1709-80) was an author of philosophical treatises and an enthusiastic amateur musician who directed the concerts and music festivals at Salisbury for nearly fifty years. His family and social circle had close connections with London's music-making: his brother was a witness toHandel's will, and his correspondents sent him lively reports on all aspects of musical life in the capital-opera, oratorio, concerts, but also about the leading performers, music copyists, and instrument makers. In 1761 Harris became a member of Parliament and thereafter divided his time betweenLondon and Salisbury. His letters and diaries provide an unrivalled record of concert- and theatre-going in London, including exchanges of letters with David Garrick about a production at Drury Lane. As his children grew up an engaging family correspondence emerged. We learn of his daughters'involvement in concerts and amateur theatrical productions; his son, who pursued a diplomatic career, reported on operas, concerts, and plays in the court of Frederick the Great and Catherine the Great. Now, for the first time, it is possible to enjoy in full the lively first-hand descriptions fromHarris's family papers, which contribute fascinating insights into contemporary eighteenth-century musical and theatrical life.
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
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| Author | : Colin Timms |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2017-06-29 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1108124569 |
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.
| Author | : Colin Timms |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2017-06-29 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1107154642 |
This book discusses literary and dramatic aspects of musical works for voices and instruments performed in English theatres (c.1650 and 1750).
| Author | : Suzanne Aspden |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2013-04-18 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1107067766 |
The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this misunderstanding, The Rival Sirens suggests that the rivalry fostered between the singers in 1720s London was in large part a social construction, one conditioned by local theatrical context and audience expectations, and heightened by manipulations of plot and music. This book offers readings of operas by Handel and Bononcini as performance events, inflected by the audience's perceptions of singer persona and contemporary theatrical and cultural contexts. Through examining the case of these two women, Suzanne Aspden demonstrates that the personae of star performers, as well as their voices, were of crucial importance in determining the shape of an opera during the early part of the eighteenth century.
| Author | : David Vickers |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 627 |
| Release | : 2017-07-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1351564250 |
This anthology represents scholarly literature devoted to Handel over the last few decades, and contains different kinds of studies of the composer's biography, operatic career, singers, librettists, and his relationship with the music of other composers. Case studies range from recent research that transforms our knowledge of large-scale English works to an interdisciplinary exploration of an individual opera aria. Designed to bring easy and convenient access to students, performers and music lovers, the wide-ranging articles are selected by David Vickers (co-editor of the recent Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia) from diverse sources - not only familiar important journals, but also specialist yearbooks, festschrifts, not easily accessible newsletters, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues. Many of these represent an up-to-date understanding of modern Handel studies, deal with fascinating biographical issues (such as the composer's art collection, his chronic health problems, and the nature of popular anecdotal evidence), and fill gaps in the mainstream Handelian literature.
