Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas write by Ellen T. Harris. This book was released on 2018. Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of seventeenth-century England, and yet, despite its global renown, it remains cloaked in mystery. The date and place of its first performance cannot be fixed with precision, and the absolute accuracy of the surviving scores, which date from almost 100 years after the work was written, cannot be assumed. In this thirtieth-anniversary new edition of her book, Ellen Harris closely examines the many theories that have been proposed for the opera's origin and chronology, considering the opera both as political allegory and as a positive exemplar for young women. Her study explores the work's historical position in the Restoration theater, revealing its roots in seventeenth-century English theatrical and musical traditions, and carefully evaluates the surviving sources for the various readings they offer-of line designations in the text (who sings what), the vocal ranges of the soloists, the use of dance and chorus, and overall layout. It goes on to provide substantive analysis of Purcell's musical declamation and use of ground bass. In tracing the performance history of Dido and Aeneas, Harris presents an in-depth examination of the adaptations made by the Academy of Ancient Music at the end of the eighteenth century based on the surviving manuscripts. She then follows the growing interest in the creation of an "authentic" version in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through published editions and performance reviews, and considers the opera as an important factor in the so-called English Musical Renaissance. To a significant degree, the continuing fascination with Purcell's Dido and Aeneas rests on its apparent mutability, and Harris shows this has been inherent in the opera effectively from its origin.
Dido and Aeneas
Dido and Aeneas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dido and Aeneas write by Henry Purcell. This book was released on 1974. Dido and Aeneas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Purcell's Dido & Aeneas
Purcell's Dido & Aeneas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Purcell's Dido & Aeneas write by Henry Purcell. This book was released on 2003. Purcell's Dido & Aeneas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Handel as Orpheus
Handel as Orpheus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handel as Orpheus write by Ellen T. Harris. This book was released on 2004-09-30. Handel as Orpheus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Handel wrote over 100 cantatas, compositions for voice and instruments decsribing the joy and pain of love. In the first comprehensive study of the cantatas, Harris investigates their place in Handel's life as well as their extraordinary beauty.
George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends
George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends write by Ellen T. Harris. This book was released on 2014-09-29. George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel’s music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself—known to most as the composer of Messiah—is a bit of a mystery. Though he took meticulous care of his musical manuscripts and even provided for their preservation on his death, very little of an intimate nature survives. One document—Handel’s will—offers us a narrow window into his personal life. In it, he remembers not only family and close colleagues but also neighborhood friends. In search of the private man behind the public figure, Ellen T. Harris has spent years tracking down the letters, diaries, personal accounts, legal cases, and other documents connected to these bequests. The result is a tightly woven tapestry of London in the first half of the eighteenth century, one that interlaces vibrant descriptions of Handel’s music with stories of loyalty, cunning, and betrayal. With this wholly new approach, Harris has achieved something greater than biography. Layering the interconnecting stories of Handel’s friends like the subjects and countersubjects of a fugue, Harris introduces us to an ambitious, shrewd, generous, brilliant, and flawed man, hiding in full view behind his public persona.
