Music in the London Theatre From Purcell to Handel

This book discusses literary and dramatic aspects of musical works for voices and instruments performed in English theatres (c.1650 and 1750).

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Colin Timms is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham, where he held the Peyton and Barber chair from 1992 to 2012. He is also a trustee of the Gerald Coke Handel Foundation and of the Handel Institute, whose Newsletter he edits, and honorary president of the Forum Agostino Steffani. He has published extensively on Steffani, and his book Polymath of the Baroque: Agostino Steffani and his Music (2013) won a British Academy prize. In addition to works by Steffani and Stradella, he has edited Theodora for the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe and Handel's Comus for Novello.Bruce Wood is Emeritus Professor of Music at Bangor University, and Chairman of the Purcell Society. He is the author of the most recent biography of Purcell (Purcell: An Extraordinary Life, 2009) and editor or co-editor of more than a dozen volumes of music by Purcell and Blow in the Purcell Society Edition and in Musica Britannica.

Zusammenfassung

The book is concerned with musical settings (c.1650–1750) for voices and instruments of mostly secular texts that were performed in English theatres. It is of value to those with an interest in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English music, literature, drama or theatre, showing how these arts intersected.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Colin (University of Birmingham) Wood Timms
• Mitarbeit: Colin (University of Birmingham) Timms (Herausgeber), Bruce (Bangor University) Wood (Herausgeber), Bruce Wood (Herausgeber), Colin Timms (Herausgeber), Timms Colin (Herausgeber), Wood Bruce (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.02.2021
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Musik > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges
• EAN: 9781316608289
• ISBN: 978-1-316-60828-9
• Anzahl Seiten: 268
• Themen: London, Greater London, MUSIC / General, Musicals, Opera, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, baroque, Popular Music, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)