Download or read book Alexander s Feast Or the Power of Musick an Ode Written by Mr Dryden and Set to Musick by Mr Handel written by John Dryden and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alexander s feast or the Power of musick written by George Frideric Handel and published by . This book was released on 1738 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handel and Maurice Greene s Circle at the Apollo Academy written by Matthew Gardner and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Apollo Academy, a musical club founded in 1731 by Maurice Greene and his friend Michael Christian Festing, was the performance location of various oratorios, odes and masques produced by composers in Greene's circle of friends, colleagues and pupils. Many of the works performed both in and outside the academy meetings are based on subjects such as Jephtha, Deborah and the choice of Hercules which were well known in eighteenth-century England and also attracted the attention of Handel. This long-overdue study explores these works in terms of their intellectual contexts (political, religious, social and cultural), comparing them to Handel's compositions on the same or similar subjects. Additionally, detailed source information and musical analysis of the works is included as well as a discussion of the competition between Handel and his English contemporaries in order to provide a fuller picture of the diverse musical and cultural life in London during the first half of the eighteenth century.
Download or read book Alexander s Feast written by John Dryden and published by . This book was released on 1739 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel written by Colin Timms and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 285 pages. 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.
Download or read book Handel written by Charles Francis Abdy Williams and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of John Dryden Volume VII written by John Dryden and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dryden's last three years of published works begin with Alexander's Feast and end with Fables, his largest miscellany of poetical translations. Alexander's Feast, like the earlier Song for St. Cecilia's Day (Works, III), was commissioned by the Musical Society for performance at its annual tribute to sacred music. The Fables included selections from Homer, Ovid, Boccaccio, and Chaucer. Extensive and detailed notes to these translations show readers how well Dryden succeeded in transmitting the styles and the very sounds of his originals. Volume VII ends with a section of miscellaneous pieces published at other times, including Dryden's only known Latin work. The presentation of the writings in this volume, like that of the entire twenty-volume series, is a tribute not only to Dryden but also to the editors who have guided it through five decades.
Download or read book Handel a Celebration of His Life and Times 1685 1759 written by National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) and published by London : National Portrait Gallery. This book was released on 1985 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Choral Monuments written by Dennis Shrock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choral Monuments provides extensive material about eleven epoch-making choral masterworks that span the history of Western culture. Included are: Missa Pange lingua (Josquin Desprez); Missa Papae Marcelli (G. P. da Palestrina); B Minor Mass (J. S. Bach); Messiah (G. F. Handel); The Creation (Joseph Haydn); Symphony #9 (Ludwig van Beethoven); St. Paul (Felix Mendelssohn); Ein deutsches Requiem (Johannes Brahms); Messa da Requiem (Giuseppe Verdi); Mass (Igor Stravinsky); and War Requiem (Benjamin Britten). The works are presented in separate chapters, with each chapter divided into three basic sections-history, analysis, and performance practice. Discussions of history are focused on relevancies-the genesis of the designated work in reference to the composer's total choral output, the work's place within the musical environment and social climate of its time, and essential features of the work that make it noteworthy. In addition, the compositional history addresses three other factors: the work's public reception and critical response, both at the time of its composition and in ensuing years; the history of score publications, detailing the various differences between editions; and the texts of the composition. The material regarding textual treatment, which often includes the complete texts of the works being discussed, concentrates on primary concerns of the text's usage; also included in the discussion are noteworthy aspects of texts separate from the music as well as biographical details of librettists and poets, if appropriate. The analysis section of each chapter outlines and describes musical forms and other types of compositional organization, including parody technique, mirror structures, and motto repetitions, as well as salient compositional characteristics that directly relate and contribute to the work's artistic stature. Numerous charts and musical examples illustrate the discussions. The discussion of performance practices includes primary source quotations about a wide range of topics, from performing forces, tempo, and phrasing of each work to specific issues such as tactus, text underlay, musica ficta, metric accentuation, and ornamentation.
Download or read book The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper written by and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library Washington D C written by Folger Shakespeare Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper Hughes Sheffield Prior Congreve Blackmore Fenton Gay written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper Hughes Sheffield Prior Congreve Blackmore Fenton Gay written by and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Musical World written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library written by William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1974 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parodies of the Works of English American Authors written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes parodies of Tennyson, Longfellow, Bret Harte, Thomas Hood, Swinburne, Browning, Shakespeare, Milton, Poe, Shelley, Cowper, Coleridge, Herrick, Carroll, Lever, Lover, Burns, Scott, Goldsmith, Kingsley, Byron and many others.
Download or read book Catalogue written by Pickering & Chatto and published by . This book was released on 1599 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
