Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107154643)

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.

Author: Colin Timms
ISBN-10: 1107154642
ISBN-13: 9781107154643
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/29/2017
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 10.11h x 7.34w x 0.17d