Download or read book Musical reminiscences of an old amateur chiefly respecting the Italian opera in England from 1773 to 1823 by R Edgcumbe written by Richard Edgcumbe (2nd earl of Mount Edgcumbe.) and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Musical Reminiscences of an Old Amateur written by Richard Edgcumbe Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Musical Reminiscences of an Old Amateur Chiefly Respecting the Italian Opera in England for Fifty Years from 1773 to 1823 written by Earl of Richard Edgcumbe Mount Edgcumbe and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Musical Reminiscences Of An Old Amateur written by Richard Edgcume and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of reminiscences about the Italian opera scene in England from 1773 to 1823. The author, Earl of Richard Edgcumbe Mount Edgcumbe, shares his invaluable insights and experiences of fifty years dedicated to opera, highlighting the passion, dedication and artistry involved in the production of an operatic performance. Drawing from his personal experiences, this book offers a fascinating glimpse of the historical Italian opera scene in England. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Musical Reminiscences of an Old Amateur Chiefly Respecting the Italian Opera in England from 1773 to 1823 by R Edgcumbe written by Deputy Curator Metalwork Department Richard Edgcumbe and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 edition. Excerpt: ... SECTION VII. 1814--1823. Change of style in music and modem operas--Rossini--Mozart--Short account of the opera during this period--Camporese. The opera in England for the last period of ten years since the departure of Catalani, will afford much less room for observation than any of the preceding, as far as the singers are concerned; for, with one single exception, there have not been any of whom I feel inclined to say much, because there is not much to be said in their praise. But so great a change has taken place in the character of the dramas, in the style of the music, and in its performance, that I cannot help enlarging a little on that subject before I proceed farther. One of the most material alterations is, that the grand distinction between serious and comic operas is nearly at an end, the separation of the singers for their performance entirely so. Not only do the same sing in both, but a new species of drama has arisen, a kind of mongrel between them, called semi-seria, which bears the same analogy to the other two that that non-descript, the melo-drama, does to the legitimate tragedy and comedy of the English stage. The construction of these newly invented pieces is essentially different from the old. The dialogue, which used to be carried on in recitative, and which in Metastasio's operas is often so beautiful and interesting, is now cut up (and rendered unintelligible if it were worth listening to) into pezzi concertati, or long singing conversations, which present a tedious succession of unconnected, everchanging motivos, having nothing to do with each other: and if a satisfactory air is for a moment introduced, which the ear would like to dwell upon, to hear modulated, varied, and again returned to, it is broken Off...
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Download or read book A Catalogue of the Allen A Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library) and published by Boston : The Trustees. This book was released on 1919 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Provincial Music Festival in England 1784 1914 written by Pippa Drummond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the English music festival is long overdue. Dr Pippa Drummond argues that these festivals represented the most significant cultural events in provincial England during the nineteenth century and emphasizes their particular importance in the promotion and commissioning of new music. Drawing on material from surviving accounts, committee records, programmes, contemporary pamphlets and reviews, Drummond shows how the festivals responded to and reflected the changing social and economic conditions of their day. Coverage includes a chronological overview documenting the history of individual festivals followed by a detailed exploration of such topics as performers and performance practice, logistics and finance, programmes and commissioning, together with information concerning the composition and provenance of festival choirs and orchestras. Also discussed are the effects of improved transport and new technologies on the festivals, sacred and secular conflicts, gender issues, the role of philanthropy, the nature of patronage and the changing social status of festival audiences. The book will also be of interest to social, economic and local historians.
Download or read book Politics and Culture in 18th Century Anglo Italian Encounters written by Lidia De Michelis and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection addresses Anglo-Italian influences, correspondences and relationships through the lens of an expansive notion of eighteenth-century political history, explored in its fecund dialogue with cultural history. Its multifaceted approach fleshes out the idea of the Enlightenment community of people linking and sharing different forms and structures of knowledge into a comprehensive picture of the Age of Reason. This book probes fields of great relevance for the cultural interpretation of historical experience, and composes a lively, and as yet unexplored, map of an interconnected European world. Anglo-Italian encounters are explored here primarily through the interweaving of political and cultural history, adding a valuable cog to contemporary insight into the cosmopolitan nature of Enlightenment Europe. The essays here range in scope from the public economy and international trade to finance, moral philosophy, the ethics and politics of translation, travel, the cosmopolitan impact of Italian music and taste, and the art of gardening.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain written by Samuel Halkett and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Three Towns Bibliotheca a Catalogue of Books Pamphlets Papers Written by Natives Thereof Published Therein Or Relating Thereto with Brief Biographical Notices of the Principal Authors written by Richard Nicholls WORTH and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Musical Reminiscences of an old amateur chiefly respecting the Italian Opera in England By the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe written by Richard EDGCUMBE (2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe.) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Allen A Brown Collection of Music in the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library. Allen A. Brown Collection of Music and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Musical Reminiscences of an Old Amateur written by Richard Edgcumbe Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Verdi in Victorian London written by Massimo Zicari and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a byword for beauty, Verdi’s operas were far from universally acclaimed when they reached London in the second half of the nineteenth century. Why did some critics react so harshly? Who were they and what biases and prejudices animated them? When did their antagonistic attitude change? And why did opera managers continue to produce Verdi’s operas, in spite of their alleged worthlessness? Massimo Zicari’s Verdi in Victorian London reconstructs the reception of Verdi’s operas in London from 1844, when a first critical account was published in the pages of The Athenaeum, to 1901, when Verdi’s death received extensive tribute in The Musical Times. In the 1840s, certain London journalists were positively hostile towards the most talked-about representative of Italian opera, only to change their tune in the years to come. The supercilious critic of The Athenaeum, Henry Fothergill Chorley, declared that Verdi’s melodies were worn, hackneyed and meaningless, his harmonies and progressions crude, his orchestration noisy. The scribes of The Times, The Musical World, The Illustrated London News, and The Musical Times all contributed to the critical hubbub. Yet by the 1850s, Victorian critics, however grudging, could neither deny nor ignore the popularity of Verdi’s operas. Over the final three decades of the nineteenth century, moreover, London’s musical milieu underwent changes of great magnitude, shifting the manner in which Verdi was conceptualized and making room for the powerful influence of Wagner. Nostalgic commentators began to lament the sad state of the Land of Song, referring to the now departed "palmy days of Italian opera." Zicari charts this entire cultural constellation. Verdi in Victorian London is required reading for both academics and opera aficionados. Music specialists will value a historical reconstruction that stems from a large body of first-hand source material, while Verdi lovers and Italian opera addicts will enjoy vivid analysis free from technical jargon. For students, scholars and plain readers alike, this book is an illuminating addition to the study of music reception.
