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Handel on the Stage

2016-02-11 Music
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Release : 2016-02-11
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Book Synopsis Handel on the Stage by : David Kimbell

Download or read book Handel on the Stage written by David Kimbell. This book was released on 2016-02-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Handel on the Stage

2016 Opera
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Release : 2016
Genre : Opera
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Book Synopsis Handel on the Stage by : David R. B. Kimbell

Download or read book Handel on the Stage written by David R. B. Kimbell. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Kimbell sets Handel's operas in their biographical and cultural contexts, exploring drama, music and styles of performance.

Handel on the Stage

2016 Opera
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Release : 2016
Genre : Opera
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Book Synopsis Handel on the Stage by : David Kimbell

Download or read book Handel on the Stage written by David Kimbell. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel

2017-06-29 Music
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Release : 2017-06-29
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel by : Colin Timms

Download or read book Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel written by Colin Timms. This book was released on 2017-06-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Rival Sirens

2013-04-18 Music
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Release : 2013-04-18
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis The Rival Sirens by : Suzanne Aspden

Download or read book The Rival Sirens written by Suzanne Aspden. This book was released on 2013-04-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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