Music Books And Theatre In Eighteenth Century Exton

Author : Colin Timms
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003860079
Total Pages : 117 pages
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Download or read book Music, Books and Theatre in Eighteenth-Century Exton written by Colin Timms and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-20 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book establishes the cultural background to the productions of Milton’s Comus that were staged in the 1740s by Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough, at Exton Hall, his country seat in the East Midlands of England. The author reveals that Handel’s visit in 1745 occurred in a richer and fuller context of cultural interests among the Noel family. Most of the music at Exton was selected from existing works by Handel, but the four movements of the finale were new, written by the composer specifically for the occasion. The study is based on receipted bills and other documents in an archival collection of Noel family papers that provide evidence of the Earl’s purchase of books and music and of the musical and theatrical activities undertaken on his Exton estate. The author discusses the Earl’s interests in music, books and theatre, indicating a belief in performance as a valuable and enjoyable experience and as a vehicle for the education of the young. In addition to creating a context for Comus, this book sheds light on cultural life in a mid-eighteenth-century English country house and how the Earl’s productions made a significant contribution to the cultural life of the East Midlands. The book will be of great value to cultural musicologists, historians and Handelians, as the documentation sheds a huge amount of light on a variety of cultural practices in eighteenth-century England.

Author : Colin Timms
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ISBN 13 : 9781032627854
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music, Books and Theatre in Eighteenth-century Exton written by Colin Timms and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book establishes the cultural background to the productions of Milton's Comus that were staged in the 1740s by Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough, at Exton Hall, his country seat in the East Midlands of England. The author reveals that Handel's visit in 1745 occurred in a richer and fuller context of cultural interests among the Noel family. Most of the music at Exton was selected from existing works by Handel, but the four movements of the finale were new, written by the composer specifically for the occasion. The study is based on receipted bills and other documents in an archival collection of Noel family papers, that provide evidence of the Earl's purchase of books and music and of the musical and theatrical activities undertaken on his Exton estate. The author discusses the Earl's interests in music, books and theatre, indicating a belief in performance as a valuable and enjoyable experience and as a vehicle for the education of the young. In addition to creating a context for Comus, this book sheds light on cultural life in a mid-eighteenth-century English country house and how the Earl's productions made a significant contribution to the cultural life of the East Midlands. The book will be of great value to cultural musicologists, historians and Handelians, as the documentation sheds a huge amount of light on a variety of cultural practices in eighteenth-century England"--

Author : J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003861415
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return to Riemann written by J. P. E. Harper-Scott and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-16 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung. First, in terms of music theory, it proposes a new theory of tonal function that returns to the theories of Hugo Riemann to rediscover a development of his thought that has been covered over by the recent project of neo-Riemannian theory. Second, in terms of its philosophical approach, it reawakens the critical-theoretical examination of the relation between music and the late capitalist society that is sedimented in the musical materials themselves, and which the music, in turn, subjects to aesthetically embodied critique. The music, the theory, and the listeners and critics who respond to them are all radically reimagined. This book will be of interest to professional music theorists, undergraduates, and technically inclined musicians and listeners, that is, anyone who is fascinated by the chromatic magic of late-nineteenth-century music.

Author : Roger Fiske
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
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Download or read book English Theatre Music in the Eighteenth Century written by Roger Fiske and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the first edition: "Written with style and wit; it is consistently entertaining, as such monumental surveys rarely manage to be."--Musical Quarterly. "First class."--Times Literary Supplement. From pantomime to opera, this revised edition discusses all the dramatic genres of the 18th-century English theater.

Author : Margaret R. Butler
Publisher : Eastman Studies in Music
ISBN 13 : 1580469019
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Theater in Eighteenth-century Parma written by Margaret R. Butler and published by Eastman Studies in Music. This book was released on 2019 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you create a style of opera that speaks to everyone, when no one agrees on what it should say -- or how?

Author : Shirley Strum Kenny
Publisher : Associated University Presses
ISBN 13 : 9780918016652
Total Pages : 322 pages
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Download or read book British Theatre and the Other Arts, 1660-1800 written by Shirley Strum Kenny and published by Associated University Presses. This book was released on 1984 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen outstanding scholars of theater, music, art, and literature explore the interrelations of eighteenth-century British theater and the various art forms that it incorporated into itself. The essays examine the theater's increasing reliance on set designers, costumers, musicians and composers, poets, dramatists, and librettists, focusing on the ways in which this dependence fundamentally changed the theater. Illustrated.

Author : Donald Burrows
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198166542
Total Pages : 1268 pages
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Download or read book Music and Theatre in Handel's World written by Donald Burrows and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Harris (1709-80) was an author of philosophical treatises and an enthusiastic amateur musician who directed the concerts and music festivals at Salisbury for nearly fifty years. His family and social circle had close connections with London's music-making: his brother was a witness toHandel's will, and his correspondents sent him lively reports on all aspects of musical life in the capital-opera, oratorio, concerts, but also about the leading performers, music copyists, and instrument makers. In 1761 Harris became a member of Parliament and thereafter divided his time betweenLondon and Salisbury. His letters and diaries provide an unrivalled record of concert- and theatre-going in London, including exchanges of letters with David Garrick about a production at Drury Lane. As his children grew up an engaging family correspondence emerged. We learn of his daughters'involvement in concerts and amateur theatrical productions; his son, who pursued a diplomatic career, reported on operas, concerts, and plays in the court of Frederick the Great and Catherine the Great. Now, for the first time, it is possible to enjoy in full the lively first-hand descriptions fromHarris's family papers, which contribute fascinating insights into contemporary eighteenth-century musical and theatrical life.

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Total Pages : 952 pages
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