Music and Theatre - Essays in Honour of Winton Dean

List of contents

List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Winton Dean Philip Radcliffe; 2. Political allegory in late-seventeenth-century English opera Curtis A. Price; 3. Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus: a 'serenata a tre voci'? Brian Trowell; 4. George I's venetian palace and theatre boxes in the 1720s Colin Timms; 5. Vivaldi's and Handel's settings of Giustino Reinhard Strohm; 6. Handel and Charles Jennens's Italian opera manuscripts John H. Roberts; 7. Handel, Jennens and Saul: aspects of a collaboration Anthony Hicks; 8. 'L'art dramatico-musical': an essay David Charlton; 9. Mendelssohn's operas John Warrack; 10. Wagnerian tendencies in Italian opera Julian Budden; 11. The cathartic slow waltz and other finale conventions in Janácek's operas John Tyrrell; 12. Grimes and Lucretia Philip Brett; 13. A bibliography of the writings of Winton Dean Stephen Dean.

Summary

This volume of eleven essays, compiled as a tribute to Winton Dean on his seventieth birthday, focuses on that area which has absorbed Winton Dean's interest throughout his distinguished career: opera and other theatre music.

Product details

• Authors: Nigel Fortune
• Assisted by: Nigel Fortune (Editor), Fortune Nigel (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2005
• EAN: 9780521619288
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61928-8
• No. of pages: 408
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries