Henry Purcell''s Operas - The Complete Texts

Zusatztext By presenting the Purcellian playbooks in an appropriate context of the practice and aesthetics of their period, this book may help to give us what we still lack in terms of an adequate discourse for their modern stage realization ... In an enjoyably no-nonsense account of the respective playbooks ... Andrew Pinnock, sniping mercilessly en route at printers, editors and bibliographers, underlines the discrepency between the words as imparted to us on the page and the necessary lopping and pruning likely to have taken place before the theatrical premieres ... By presenting the purcellian playbooks in an appropriate context of the practice and aesthetics of their period, this book may help to give us what we still lack in terms of an adequate discourse for their modern stage realisation. Zusammenfassung This volume presents to the reader the complete entertainment of Henry Purcell's operas as prepared by the author on each occasion. Included are editions of both the 1689 libretto of "Dido and Aeneas" and its later incarnation as a series of masques in Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure".

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• Authors: Michael Burden, Michael (Lecturer in Music Burden
• Assisted by: Michael Burden (Editor), Burden Michael (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.1999
• EAN: 9780198164456
• ISBN: 978-0-19-816445-6
• No. of pages: 552
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Opera, baroque, Composers and songwriters, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)